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Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for Converting U.S. and Russian Research Reactors A Workshop Report (2012) / Chapter Skim
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... This report provides a summary of the symposium presentations and discussions; it does not represent a consensus of the symposium participants or the authoring committees.1 Many important points were made by individual participants during the symposium,2 particularly regarding possible future actions for reducing or managing the proliferation risks posed by 1 This report was authored by committees of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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... • Some facilities may not be easily convertible to LEU fuel, including fast spectrum reactors, fast critical assemblies, reactors with small core volumes, and reactors with high specific power per unit volume of active core. The feasibility of conversion depends to some extent on policy choices by host nation governments.
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