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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Sample List of National Academies Reports on Nuclear Waste Management." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26500.
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Appendix F

Sample List of National Academies Reports on Nuclear Waste Management

NRC (National Research Council). 2011. Waste Forms Technology and Performance: Final Report. https://doi.org/10.17226/13100.

NRC. 2010. Science and Technology for DOE Site Cleanup: Workshop Summary. https://doi.org/10.17226/11932.

NRC. 2009. Advice on the Department of Energy’s Cleanup Technology Roadmap.https://doi.org/10.17226/12603.

NRC. 2006. Tank Waste Retrieval, Processing, and On-Site Disposal at Three Department of Energy Sites: Final Report. https://doi.org/10.17226/11618.

NRC. 2005a. Improving the Characterization and Treatment of Radioactive Wastes for the Department of Energy’s Accelerated Site Cleanup Program. https://doi.org/10.17226/11200.

NRC. 2005b. Risk and Decisions about Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste. https://doi.org/10.17226/11223.

NRC. 2004. Improving the Characterization Program for Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. https://doi.org/10.17226/10900.

NRC. 2003a. End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States. https://doi.org/10.17226/10667.

NRC. 2003b. Improving the Scientific Basis for Managing DOE’s Excess Nuclear Materials and Spent Nuclear Fuel. https://doi.org/10.17226/10684.

NRC. 2003c. Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: A Status Report. https://doi.org/10.17226/10703.

NRC. 2002a. Characteristics of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.https://doi.org/10.17226/10492.

NRC. 2002b. Research Opportunities for Managing the Department of Energy’s Transuranic and Mixed Waste. https://doi.org/10.17226/10513.

NRC. 2001a. Research Needs for High-Level Waste Stored in Tanks and Bins at U.S. Department of Energy Sites: Environmental Management Science Program.https://doi.org/10.17226/10191.

NRC. 2001b. Research Opportunities for Deactivating and Decommissioning Department of Energy Facilities. https://doi.org/10.17226/10184.

NRC. 2001c. A Strategic Vision for Department of Energy Environmental Quality Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.17226/10207.

NRC. 2000. Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites.https://doi.org/10.17226/9949.

NRC. 1999a. Alternative High-Level Waste Treatments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.17226/9743.

NRC. 1999b. Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.17226/9448.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Sample List of National Academies Reports on Nuclear Waste Management." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26500.
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NRC. 1999c. Peer Review in Environmental Technology Development Programs: The Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.17226/6408.

NRC. 1999d. The State of Development of Waste Forms for Mixed Wastes: U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.17226/9459.

NRC. 1999e. Technologies for Environmental Management: The Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.17226/9656.

NRC. 1998a. A Review of Decontamination and Decommissioning Technology Development Programs at the Department of Energy. https://doi.org/10.17226/6290.

NRC. 1998b. Study of the Decision Process Related to Long-Term Disposition of U.S. Department of Energy Waste Sites and Facilities: Interim Report.

NRC. 1997a. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management.https://doi.org/10.17226/5539.

NRC. 1997b. Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program: Final Assessment. https://doi.org/10.17226/5557.

NRC. 1997c. Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternatives for the Removal and Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fluoride Salts. https://doi.org/10.17226/5538.

NRC. 1996a. Affordable Cleanup? Opportunities for Cost Reduction in the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the Nation’s Uranium Enrichment Facilities.https://doi.org/10.17226/5114.

NRC. 1996b. Glass as a Waste Form and Vitrification Technology: Summary of an International Workshop. https://doi.org/10.17226/5488.

NRC. 1996c. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for the Disposal of Transuranic Waste. https://doi.org/10.17226/5269.

NRC. 1995. Safety of the High-Level Uranium Ore Residues at the Niagara Falls Storage Site, Lewiston, New York. https://doi.org/10.17226/9161.

NRC. 1994. Building Consensus Through Risk Assessment and Management of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Remediation Program. https://doi.org/10.17226/9480.

NRC. 1992. Review of Analyses by the U.S. Department of Energy of Selected Technical Issues in the Environmental Protection Agency Standards for High-Level and Transuranic Radioactive Wastes (40 CFR 191).

NRC. 1991. WIPP Panel Letter Report Summarizing Views on the Status of DOE’s Scientific and Technical Program to Assess the WIPP’s Ability to Isolate Transuranic (TRU) Waste and to Demonstrate Compliance with the Relevant Regulations.

NRC. 1989. WIPP Panel Letter Report of Review Comments on DOE Document DOE/WIPP 89-011: Draft Plan for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Test Phase: Performances Assessment and Operations Demonstration.

NRC. 1988a. WIPP Panel Letter Report on Brine Accumulation in the WIPP Facility.

NRC. 1988b. WIPP Panel Letter Report on Intermediate-Scale Experiments of Room Closure Rates.

NRC. 1987a. BRWM Letter Report on the Defense Waste Management Plan for Buried Transuranic Waste, Transuranic Contaminated Soil, and Difficult-to-Certify Transuranic Waste.

NRC. 1987b. Scientific Basis for Risk Assessment and Management of Uranium Mill Tailings.https://doi.org/10.17226/18922.

NRC. 1987c. WIPP Panel Letter Report on the Planned Sorbing Tracer Tests at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

NRC. 1984a. Review of the Scientific and Technical Criteria for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

NRC. 1984b. Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal.https://doi.org/10.17226/316.

NRC. 1983. Review of the Criteria for the Site Suitability, Design, Construction, and Operation of the Proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): Interim Report.

NRC. 1980. Continuing Evaluation of the Carlsbad Site: Report to the U.S. Department of Energy.

NRC. 1979a. Implementation of Long-Term Environmental Radiation Standards: The Issue of Verification.https://doi.org/10.17226/19819.

NRC. 1979b. Solidification of High-Level Radioactive Wastes.

NRC. 1978. Geological Criteria for Repositories for High-Level Radioactive Waste.

NRC. 1974. Transportation of High-Level Nuclear Wastes: Letter Report of the Panel on Transportation of Radioactive Wastes.

NRC. 1972. An Evaluation of the Concept of Storing Radioactive Waste in Bedrock Below the Savannah River Plant Site.

NRC. 1970a. Disposal of Solid Radioactive Waste in Bedded Salt Deposits.

NRC. 1970b. Radioactive Waste Management: An Interim Report of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.https://doi.org/10.17226/21764.

NRC. 1966. Review of Radioactive Waste Disposal Technology—Report to the Division of Reactor Development and Technology, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

NRC. 1958. Thermal Considerations in Deep Disposal of Radioactive Waste.

NRC. 1957. The Disposal of Radioactive Waste on Land. https://doi.org/10.17226/10294.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Sample List of National Academies Reports on Nuclear Waste Management." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26500.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Sample List of National Academies Reports on Nuclear Waste Management." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26500.
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The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S. electricity generation. The current commercial nuclear fleet consists entirely of thermal-spectrum, light water reactors operating with low-enriched uranium dioxide fuel in a once-through fuel cycle. In recent years, the U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Energy, and private sector have expressed considerable interest in developing and deploying advanced nuclear reactors to augment, and possibly replace, the U.S. operating fleet of reactors, nearly all of which will reach the end of their currently licensed operating lives by 2050. Much of this interest stems from the potential ability of advanced reactors and their associated fuel cycles - as claimed by their designers and developers - to provide a number of advantages, such as improvements in economic competitiveness, reductions in environmental impact via better natural resource utilization and/or lower waste generation, and enhancements in nuclear safety and proliferation resistance.

At the request of Congress, this report explores merits and viability of different nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycles that may use reprocessing, for both existing and advanced reactor technologies; and waste management (including transportation, storage, and disposal options) for advanced reactors, and in particular, the potential impact of advanced reactors and their fuel cycles on waste generation and disposal.

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