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1 Introduction
Pages 11-16

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... Thus the fuel is separated into three components; metallic uranium, a metallic waste form from the anode, and a highly radioactive salt mixture that subsequently can be converted to a ceramic waste form. In 1995, ANL proposed the use of electrometallurgical technology for treatment of all spent nuclear fuel in the DOE inventory.3 Treatment would convert the fuel to components suitable for waste disposal as well as separate out any material that might be of use in future DOE operations.
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From page 12...
... S-7 and S-8. 6National Research Council, Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: Fall 1996 Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R&D Activity, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1997, p.
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... · An Evaluation of the Electrometallurgical Approach for Treatment of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1996, Report 3) , · Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: A Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R&D Activity (1996, Report 4)
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... The ramifications of these waste forms are discussed in detail in Chapter 4, where the electrometallurgical waste streams are described. This, the committee's tenth and final report, fulfills its tasks to assess the viability of electrometallurgical technology for treating DOE spent nuclear fuel and to monitor the scientific and technical progress of the ANL program on electrometallurgical technology, specifically within the context of ANL's demonstration project on electrometallurgical treatment of EBR-II SNF.
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... 16National Research Council, An Assessment of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1995. 17National Research Council, Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: A Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R&D Activity, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1996, p.
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... It is the technological aspects of these operations that the Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment has evaluated in the course of its work from 1995 to the present.
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Key Terms

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  • nuclear fuel
  • spent fuel
  • electrometallurgical technology
  • argonne national

  • electrometallurgical techniques
  • demonstration project
  • status report
  • electrometallurgical demonstration
  • spent fuels

  • treating doe
  • electrometallurgical treatment
  • electrometallurgical approach
  • fuel treatment
  • doe inventory

  • molten salt
  • environmental assessment
  • doe complex
  • reactor fuel
  • success criteria

  • uranium metal
  • fourth report
  • reports issued
  • technical evaluation
  • conditioning facility

  • technical goals
  • weapons plutonium
  • increasingly focused
  • fuel types
  • waste management


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