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Nuclear Alchemy Gamble. Executive summary
| Author | IEER |
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6-01-5-56-25.pdf |
| Date | August 2002 |
| Classification | 6.01.5.56/25 (WASTE - ACTINIDES (TRANSMUTATION / BURNING) GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
IEER Report: Transmutation - Nuclear Alchemy Gamble Page 1 of 15
IEER
Nuclear Alchemy Gamble:
An Assessment of Transmutation as a
Nuclear Waste Management Strategy
By: Hisham Zerriffi and Annie Makhijani
Prepared for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
May 2000
Executive Summary
Table of Contents, Full Report | Findings | Recommendations | Acknowledgements | References | Endnotes
"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 facilities, new waste treatment and disposal
concepts, and specific safety studies. The global nuclear scientific and engineering community is challenged by this
opportunity."
Everybody realizes however that this voyage to the promised land will pass a desert with a lot of mountains and that
we are not so sure that the horizon will be as bright as one can hope."
---Paul Govaerts, SCK -CEN (Belgian Nuclear Research Center). "Welcome Address" to the Fifth International
Information and Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation, Mol, Belgium, 25-27
November 1998.
"The [transmutation] programme is expected to serve to revitalise the nuclear R&D in general, and also to attract
capable young researchers dedicated to bringing the nuclear