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Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
US Spent Fuel Policy
Author: Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096472
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In response to a request from Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Homeland Security sponsored a National Academies study to assess the safety and security risks of spent nuclear fuel stored in cooling pools and dry casks at commercial nuclear power plants. The information provided in this book examines the risks of terrorist attacks using these materials for a radiological dispersal device. Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel is an unclassified public summary of a more detailed classified book. The book finds that successful terrorist attacks on spent fuel pools, though difficult, are possible. A propagating fire in a pool could release large amounts of radioactive material, but rearranging spent fuel in the pool during storage and providing emergency water spray systems would reduce the likelihood of a propagating fire even under severe damage conditions. The book suggests that additional studies are needed to better understand these risks. Although dry casks have advantages over cooling pools, pools are necessary at all operating nuclear power plants to store at least the recently discharged fuel. The book explains it would be difficult for terrorists to steal enough spent fuel to construct a significant radiological dispersal device.
Disposal and Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel--finding the Right Balance
Author: United States. Nuclear Waste Technical Review BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and the Problems of Safeguarding Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Nuclear facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309184584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
During the next several years, decisions are expected to be made in several countries on the further development and implementation of the geological disposition option. The Board on Radioactive Waste Management (BRWM) of the U.S. National Academies believes that informed and reasoned discussion of relevant scientific, engineering and social issues can-and should-play a constructive role in the decision process by providing information to decision makers on relevant technical and policy issues. A BRWM-initiated project including a workshop at Irvine, California on November 4-5, 1999, and subsequent National Academies' report to be published in spring, 2000, are intended to provide such information to national policy makers both in the U.S. and abroad. To inform national policies, it is essential that experts from the physical, geological, and engineering sciences, and experts from the policy and social science communities work together. Some national programs have involved social science and policy experts from the beginning, while other programs have only recently recognized the importance of this collaboration. An important goal of the November workshop is to facilitate dialogue between these communities, as well as to encourage the sharing of experiences from many national programs. The workshop steering committee has prepared this discussion for participants at the workshop. It should elicit critical comments and help identify topics requiring in-depth discussion at the workshop. It is not intended as a statement of findings, conclusions, or recommendations. It is rather intended as a vehicle for stimulating dialogue among the workshop participants. Out of that dialogue will emerge the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the National Academies' report.
Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: Tom LaTourrettePublisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN: 9780833051080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Increasing the fraction of nuclear power in the mix of power-generation technologies is one approach to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. If nuclear power is to be sustainable option for the United States, methods for managing spent fuel that meet stringent safety and environmental standards must be implemented. This book evaluates four approaches and draws policy implications associated with different societal priorities and values.
Fuel Cycle to Nowhere
Author: Richard Burleson StewartPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The origins of the current nuclear waste disposal crisis and directions for future policy
Nuclear Wastes
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309052262
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow. The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel. The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.
Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Policy Concerning Foreign Research Reactor Spent Fuel
Author: International Nuclear Spent Fuel Storage Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description