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The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble. An Assessment of Transmutation as a nuclear waste Management Strategy May 12, 2005 modified version

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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.
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