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... use the results of (1) to determine whether the final plutonium forms produced by the two primary-candidate disposition options currently being pursued by DOE under the "dual-track" approach "can-in-canister" immobilization of the plutonium together with high level radioactive wastes and once-through irradiation of the 2These studies were: Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994, 275 pp.
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... Neither was the Panel asked to address compliance of final plutonium forms other than those of the two primary-candidate disposition options currently being pursued by DOE.3 The consequent omission from consideration of other final forms, including some that have been proposed since the earlier CISAC reports on plutonium disposition, does not reflect any judgment by the Panel about whether these forms would meet the standard. The Panel provided an Interim Report to DOE in July 1999, conveying preliminary findings relating mainly to the "can-in-canister" approach to plutonium immobilization and, more specifically, to the variant of this approach described in the documents and briefings made available to the Panel in the first part of 1999.
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