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1 INTRODUCTION
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... The acronyms used in this report are listed in Appendix C 2A Preliminary Assessment of the Promise of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Fuel, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1995.
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... - ~ ~< ~-'id ~ BAIT ~~AA~ The interim report was released by the National Research Council in February ~ 995 to meet the first of the committee's tasks. The committee concluded that the technology of electrometallurgical processing appears sufficiently promising for treating a variety of DOE spent fuels that continued R&D would be warranted in federal FY96.
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... The committee concluded Hat the technology of electrometallurgical processing appears sufficiently promising for treating a variety of DOE spent filets that continued R&D would be warranted in federal FY96. The committee did not evaluate the associated funding levels, estimated by He DOE at $12 million annually.4 The committee recommended that the DOE should closely follow the progress of the proposed R&D program during the next 12 months to determine whether it should be continued beyond FY96, noting that critical input from experts outside the program and parallel evaluation of alternatives would be beneficial to the DOE in making that decision.
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... The committee recommended that such R&D should be conducted exclusively to evaluate this technology's effectiveness for treating DOE spent fuel, and Finding decisions about elec~ometallurgical R&D for DOE spent fuel treatment should loe independent of issues related to the IFR program. The committee noted that it was aware of other possible technologies for spent fuel treatment, but it did not attempt a comparative evaluation of the electrometallurgical approach against other potentially applicable technologies.
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  • nuclear fuel
  • doe spent
  • doe snf
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  • materials include

  • nuclear materials
  • electrometallurgical approach
  • treating doe
  • environmental impact
  • national laboratories

  • savannah river
  • sandia national


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