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L INTERIM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEPARATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSMUTATION SYSTEMS
L INTERIM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEPARATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSMUTATION SYSTEMS
Pages 457-474
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APPENDIX L INTERIM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEPARATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSMUTATION SYSTEMS May 15, 1992 457
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If you have any questions, we will be please to meet with you and your staff Sincerely yours, ~/0~ i~ Norman C Rasmussen Chairperson Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems Panel The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering to serve government and other organizations .
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APPENDIX L - INTERIMREPORT OF THE STATS COMMIl al HE Interim Report of the Pane! on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems Board on Radioactive Waste Management Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources Energy Engineenng Board Commission on Engineenng and Technical Systems May 1992 Nabonal Research Council Washington, D.C.
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Thier is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government.
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What licensing or regulatory problems may be encountered? How would acne bunting affect the need and schedule for the first geological repository?
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In the fall of 1991, with instructions to issue a final report by July of 1994. The STATS Pane} in its first six months of operation has held a two-day international symposium and has had briefings from Be Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, Me General Electric Company, the Electric Power Research Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory, and the Yucca Mountain Project.
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concept is being proposed by its designers, Be General Electric Company and Argonne National Laboratory, as a fast breeder reactor to generate electricity in the future. Here, we are only concerned with its use as an acunide (specifically, transwan~c act~n~de)
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If we assume that any ALMR introduced into the electric utility grid would replace a light water reactor, use of the AL~ would allow aIready-mined depleted uranium or uranium from spent fuel to be used instead of natural uranium. Then the associated reduction in radioactivity from radon and other components in uranium ore would be expected to more than compensate for radioac~ ty released as a result of reprocessing for the ALMRs (Reference 3~.
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~ is the ratio of (inventory of transuranic actinides at time ~ in spent fuel from the EWR at constant power, with no ALMR) to (inventory of transuranic actinides in the ALMR at constant power, in the ALMR fuel cycle, and in radioactive waste at time r)
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The repository would receive canisters of high-level waste containing mostly fission products and relatively small quantities of aciinide waste from light water reactor fuel and reprocessing of existing defense wastes. Current estimates are that Me fission products and remaining act~n~des would require about the same number of canisters as in the once-through spent fuel cycle (Reference 7, Table 4.5~.
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waste around 2020. Achieving this would require the development, design, licensing, and construction of the reprocessing plant and waste fixation plant for light water reactor spent fuel.
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The feasibility of an act~n~de-burrung ALAR is strongly affected by the unit cost of reprocessing light water reactor spent filet. Such cost is uncertain and is likely to be high because of several factors, especially: (~)
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Pasternak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Impacts of New Developments in Partitioning and Transmutation on the Disposal of High-Leve} Nuclear Waste in a Mined Geologic Repository.
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Burke, The Johns Hopkins University Gregory Choppin, Flonda State University Allen G Crow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Harold K
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Oste~young, Sly Buffalo Raymond, G WyTner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Staff Douglas Raber, BCSTStafiDirector Scott Weidman, Senior Staff Officer Karen McMilIan, Senior ProjectAssistant 471
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Gn~nder, Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility William M Jacobi Mujid Karma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Glenn E
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Croft, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Harold K Forsen, Bechte!
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