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An Evaluation of the Electrometallurgical Approach for Treatment of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1996) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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... 4 An Assessment of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., July 1995. s Letter from Terry Lash, Director of DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, to Bruce Alberts, Chairman ofthe National Research Council, July 26, 1995.
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... Introduction linkage with the CISAC studies and to bring other technological expertise related to the potential application of the electrometallurgical techniques to plutonium disposition. This report is a preliminary assessment by the Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques of the value of and the technological problems involved in the possible application of the electrometallurgical technique to treatment of DOE excess weapons plutonium.
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