Proposed Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Policy Concerning Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
February 1, 1996
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Proposed Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Policy Concerning Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel
This study analyzes the potential environmental impacts of adopting a policy to manage foreign research reactor spent fuel containing uranium enriched in the United States, In particular, the study esamines the comparative impacts of several alternative approaches to managing the spent fuel. The analysis demonstrate that the impacts on the environmental, workers and the general public of implementing any of the alternative management approaches would be small and within applicable Federal and state regulator limits.