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Improving the Scientific Basis for Managing DOE's Excess Nuclear Materials and Spent Nuclear Fuel (2003) / Chapter Skim
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8 Conclusions
Pages 81-83

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From page 81...
... DOE should avoid decisions today that foreclose future options. Basic physical and chemical principles guarantee that there will be no simple, shortcut ways to replace the currently available quantities of nuclear materials that resulted from 50 years of intense effort in the United States' massive nuclear complex during the Cold War.
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From page 82...
... DOE spent nuclear fuel: arrest cladding degradation and prepare for several decades of storage before eventual disposal in a geo C~ 1 · Cs-1 37 and Sr-90 capsules: understand fundamental mechanisms that lead to swelling and potential breaching of containment. Depleted uranium: provide new methods to ensure safe removal of DUF6 from deteriorated containers to support DOE's plan for converting the DUF6 to a stable oxide.
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From page 83...
... Three areas stand out as offering opportunities for the EMSP to support scientific research that crosscuts most of DOE's cleanup challenges. For DOE's excess nuclear materials, wastes, and contaminated media crosscutti ng topics for research i ncl ude: · characterization of their fundamental chemical, physical, and biological properties; treatment to ensure their near- and long-term stability, including understanding the fundamental parameters that affect stability; and assessment of their actual health or environmental risks.
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