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Re: Russian Waste Repository

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Russian Waste Repository
From: "Fritz Strydom" <FStrydom@NACINTL.COM>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:31:28 -0400
Reply-To: "Fritz Strydom" <FStrydom@NACINTL.COM>
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Paul,

There is no current federal law against reprocessing. General U.S. policy is against it, but Reagan repealed Jimmy Carter's ban on reprocessing. The biggest reasons it is not being pursued are that DOE is accepting responsibility for spent fuel for 1 mill/kwh surcharge and the costs associated with the technology.

>Most radsafers know that if the federal law were changed to
>allow for the SMN to be extracted from the spent fuel
>and weapons and essentially made into new enriched
>fuel for future loadings of nuclear power plants, that
>there would be many more jobs in nuclear engineering,
>nuclear technology, radiochemical engineering, health
>physics and radiation protection engineering, nuclear
>security (safeguards), radio-environmental engineering
>etc. created.

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