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5 Conclusion
Pages 31-32

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... The congressionally mandated report of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) team advances the understanding of the options available to DOE, in part by limiting the universe of possibilities to a suite that can likely meet regulatory standards and can be directly compared on other grounds, and in part by expanding the realistic disposal options beyond a controversial on-site facility.
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... The combination of these two factors -- large funding increases that appear to be needed into the future for Hanford clean-up and the technical dependency of the definable SLAW options on a set of fixed upstream decisions and actions -- has created a situation in which analysis of one component is incomplete and outcomes cannot truly be optimized independently. This realization does not render the work of the FFRDC unimportant or inconsequential; however, it has promoted a clearer recognition -- one that the committee wishes to highlight -- that the challenge facing Hanford cannot be solved by incremental improvements in the SLAW portion of the clean-up alone.
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