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1 Welcoming Remarks--David N. McNelis
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... , which has been sponsoring activities with a primary focus on the destruction of spent nuclear fuel. Currently, he is sponsoring a number of graduate students in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University.
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... The isotopic inventory would be periodically assessed to determine the efficacy of the process and to compare the results with those produced by simulations of mathematical models. Although it is widely accepted that beneficial transmutation is possible, results to date have only been simulated.
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