Re: Spent Fuel form Canada?

[Lester.Slaback@nist.gov]

Not only is research reactor fuel returned from Canada,
it is also returned from various other countries on the same basis. There
was an extended moratorium on this that only recently
was lifted.
Note that aluminum clad fuel goes to South Carolina, but current plans do
not call for reprocessing of these elements.
S.S. clad fuel, e.g., from TRIGA reactors, in the past went to Idaho.  But
with the various lawsuits between the state and DoE I am not certain of
the current status of this process.  Since most TRIGA's have long-lived
cores this has not presented the
problems that the closure at Savannah presented.

Note that these cores do not present the same difficulties that power
reactor fuel does.
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