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Appendix C. Charge to Consultants
Pages 124-128

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... if you have any immediate questions or concerns. The objective of the December meeting is to obtain the information needed to develop a National Research Council report that fully addresses the statement of task for this project (the task statement is included in this packaged To accomplish this objective, we have invited about a dozen experts to the meeting to provide advice on the technical issues in Me task statement.
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From page 125...
... First, we ask that you focus your efforts on those aspects of DOE's program that are under review in this project. DOE's aluminum-based spent fuel program includes a variety of activities, including the ingathering of fuel from foreign research reactors, the shipping of domestic research reactor file} to Savannah River, storage of the foreign and domestic research reactor fuel at Savannah River, preparation or processing to ready the fuel for the repository, loading the processed fuel in a "road-ready" canister for shipment to the repository, interim storage of Me processed fuel until the repository opens, shipment to the repository, and emplacement in the repository.
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... 2. Do any of the waste forms produced by the alternative processing options pose significant internal or external criticality hazards In a repository from material degradation either in the waste container or In the near field of the repository after the container is breached relative to commercial spent ~e!
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... 4. Will any of the waste forms resulting from any of the alternative processing options be likely to increase internal corrosion of a standard repository container compared to spent commercial filet or vitrified glass logs?
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... Regulatory Waste Acceptance I Has DOE-Savannah River identified the appropriate criteria for aluminum-based spent fuel from the draft waste acceptance criteria document that has been prepared by the Yucca Mountain program?
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