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Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel
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... Ahearne Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society The United States has 103 reactors at 65 sites, representing a generation capacity of about 88 GWe. As of December 2001 the United States was storing approximately 45,000 metric tons of heavy metal of spent fuel from civilian nuclear power plants.
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... The spent nuclear fuel from these reactors is stored only briefly before going through chemical separations. SOURCE: National Research Council.
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... March 25, 2002; National Research Council. End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States.
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... I will now address the end point for spent nuclear fuel as seen in the United States. In 1955 the National Research Council recommended isolation in stable
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... April 2001. National Research Council.
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... "As a result, the U.S. program is bound by requirements that may be impossible to meet."3 At the request of Congress the National Research Council conducted a study on what should be the technical bases for Yucca Mountain requirements and produced Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, known as the TYMS report,4 in 1995.
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... A recent National Research Council report noted, "Most external commenters believe this ambitious schedule is unrealistic based on the time needed for each step. In addition, several lawsuits that attempt to block the various steps in the process have been filed." Other issues regarding Yucca Mountain include working on the transportation of spent nuclear fuel to Yucca Mountain and the security of Yucca Mountain and related facilities against terrorist attacks.
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... National Research Council. End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States.
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