Improving the scientific basis for managing DOE's excess nuclear material and spent nuclear fuel / Committee on Improving the Scientific Basis for Managing Nuclear Materials and Spent Nuclear Fuel through the Environmental Management Science Program, National Research Council
Front Matter -- Preface -- List of Report Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction, Background, and Task -- 2 The Challenges of Managing DOE's Excess Nuclear Materials -- 3 Plutonium-239 -- 4 Spent DOE Nuclear Fuel -- 5 Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 Capsules -- 6 Depleted Uranium -- 7 The Higher Actinides -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Appendix A Nuclear Materials Production in the DOE Complex -- Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Appendix C Presentations to the Committee -- Appendix D List of Acronyms
Summary
This study identifies research opportunities for storage, recycle, reuse, or disposal of nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel. Most of the materials dealt with in this report have not been declared as waste
Notes
"National Research Council of the National Academies."
