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Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel. A safe, flexible, and cost-effective near-term approach to spent fuel management (2001)
| Author | Harvard University, University of Tokyo |
| Date | June 2001 |
| Classification | 6.01.5.50/62 (WASTE - RADIOACTIVE WASTE GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Executive Summary THE MANAGEMENT OF SPENT FUEL from nuclear power plants has become amajor policy issue for virtually every nuclear power program in the world. For the nuclear industry, finding sufficient capacity for storage and processing or disposal of spent fuel is essential if nuclear power plants are to be allowed to continue to operate. At the same time, the options chosen for spent fuel management can have a substantial impact on the political controversies, proliferation risks, environmental hazards, and economic costs of the nuclear fuel cycle. Interim storage of spent fuel offers a safe, flexible, and cost-effective near-term approach to spent fuel management that may be attractive regardless of a particular country's perspective on the continuing debate over whether spent fuel should ultimately be reprocessed or disposed of as waste. Today, in fact, there is less divergence among countries in what is actually done with spent fuel than official policy statements concerning reprocessing and direct disposal might suggest. With most of the spent fuel generated each year remaining in storage, a quiet consensus has developed that for the near term, simply storing spent fuel while continuing to develop more permanent solutions is an attractive approach.
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