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... The NRC's review committee concludes that the cost of Implementing the suggested changes could affect the viability of a mine in a highly competitive international environment. Because of this economic concern, the NRC committee recommends that emphasis be given to improving monitoring capabilities to decrease the ambiguity of seismic signals from milling operations, rather than relying on efforts
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... This ability would greatly reduce the ambiguity of many small seismic signals detected by the CTBT seismic monitoring system and would make it possible to rapidly obtain confidence-building information from the mine to explain any questionable signals. For the very few mines that might emit large signals that are still ambiguous despite the process described above, mine operators may want to take more active voluntary measures and allow installation of an un~ntrusive, on-site monitoring system such as that discussed in the DOE Working Group report.
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