Light water reactor fuel reprocessing and recycling

Technical Report · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7306939· OSTI ID:7306939

This document was originally intended to provide the basis for an environmental impact statement to assist ERDA in making decisions with respect to possible LWR fuel reprocessing and recycling programs. Since the Administration has recently made a decision to indefinitely defer reprocessing, this environmental impact statement is no longer needed. Nevertheless, this document is issued as a report to assist the public in its consideration of nuclear power issues. The statement compares the various alternatives for the LWR fuel cycle. Costs and environmental effects are compared. Safeguards for plutonium from sabotage and theft are analyzed. (DLC)

• Research Organization: Energy Research and Development Administration, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7306939
• Report Number(s): ERDA-77-75
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FUEL CYCLE
FUELS
NUCLEAR FUELS
REACTOR MATERIALS
REACTORS
REPROCESSING
SAFEGUARDS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPENT FUELS
WATER COOLED REACTORS