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The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble. An Assessment of Transmutation as a nuclear waste Management Strategy May 12, 2005 modified version
Auteur | IEER, Zerriffi, Arjun Makhijani |
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Datum | augustus 2000 |
Classificatie | 6.01.5.56/22 (AFVAL - ACTINIDEN (-TRANSMUTATIE/VERBRANDEN)) |
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The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble An Assessment of Transmutation as a Nuclear Waste Management Strategy Hisham Zerriffi Annie Makhijani August 25, 2000 (May 12, 2005 web-posted version with modifications to Appendix B) Acknowledgments We would like to thank Dr. Edwin Lyman, David Lochbaum, Greg Mello, Dr. Lawrence Lidsky, Hideyuki Ban, Dr. Yukio Yamaguchi, Monique Sené, and Jean-Pierre Morichaud for their review of one or more drafts of this report. Of course, the authors are solely responsible for the content of the report, its conclusions and recommendations, and any omissions or errors that remain. We would also like to thank IEER staff members Lois Chalmers, Diana Kohn, Betsy Thurlow-Shields, Michele Boyd and Arjun Makhijani for their comments and assistance. Research for this report was conducted as part of IEER’s program: The Road to Enduring and Complete Nuclear Disarmament: A Technical Outreach Project on Nuclear Weapons and Related Energy Issues. We gratefully acknowledge the W. Alton Jones Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the C.S. Fund, and the HKH Foundation for their generous support of this program. Outreach for this report will also be conducted as part of IEER’s Project to Provide Technical Assistance to Grassroots Groups on Nuclear Issues, which is made possible by the support of the John Merck Fund, Ploughshares Fund, Public Welfare Foundation, Town Creek Foundation, and the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. We would also like to thank our individual donors and general support funding of the Beldon II Fund, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, Rockefeller Financial Services, and Turner Foundation. "Research on partitioning and transmutation is rather seductive to all of us. It requires new reprocessing techniques, new fuel developments, additional nuclear data, new reactors and irradiation f