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Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel. A safe, flexible, and cost-effective near-term approach to spent fuel management (2001)

AuteurHarvard University, University of Tokyo
Datumjuni 2001
Classificatie 6.01.5.50/62 (AFVAL - ALGEMEEN)
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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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