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15 International Storage of Commercial Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste: Considerations for U.S. Approval to Ship Spent Fuel with U.S.-Origin Uranium to Russia for Storage and Disposal--Alex R. Burkart and Janet M. Gorn
15 International Storage of Commercial Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste: Considerations for U.S. Approval to Ship Spent Fuel with U.S.-Origin Uranium to Russia for Storage and Disposal--Alex R. Burkart and Janet M. Gorn
Pages 99-108
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However, it is important that the search for a multinational solution should not jeopardize any ongoing national programs. In the United States there are requirements established by U.S.
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U.S. Waste Management Cooperation In general, the United States favors the idea of states in a region getting together to solve their spent fuel and radioactive waste issues collectively.
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Despite U.S. policy against taking back spent nuclear power reactor fuel, the United States has operated an international spent fuel disposal system of sorts, taking back spent U.S.-origin research reactor fuel for disposal.
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An Agreement for Cooperation Required Source and special nuclear material are exported from the United States pursuant to an agreement for cooperation negotiated according to the requirements of Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. These requirements apply to not just exported material but also the special nuclear material produced through its use or the use of certain U.S.-exported nuclear facilities and technology.
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No president has ever waived any of the required provisions. The United States currently has nuclear cooperation agreements with the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)
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The United States would expect to use its consent rights to enforce the disposal, as opposed to reprocessing, of transferred spent fuel. Facilities Must Be Safe and Environmentally Sound In addition to gaining assurances about the ultimate disposition of the spent fuel, the United States would need to be assured that the interim storage facilities and the final repository facilities were safe and environmentally sound.
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RUSSIAN REPOSITORY OPPORTUNITIES The United States is interested in the possibility of safe and secure storage in Russia of spent reactor fuel containing U.S.-origin nuclear material. Among the specific technical issues raised above, the DOE has already begun a cooperative program in geological repository science with Russia.
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Iran Finally, while the concept of spent fuel storage in Russia has promise, it will not be possible for the United States to support practical steps in this direction until the problem of Russian cooperation with Iran is resolved. The United States does not authorize retransfer of nuclear material to countries to which it could not transfer nuclear material directly.
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The Bush administration has firmly linked the storage of spent fuel containing U.S.-origin nuclear material in Russia to resolution of this concern.
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