1. Should the United States resume reprocessing? A pro and con.
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Dennis, Kate J., Rugolo, Jason, Murray, Lee T., Parrella, Justin, Romps, David M., Holmes, Christopher D., House, Kurt Z., Lee, Benjamin G., and Winkler, Mark T.
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REACTOR fuel reprocessing , *MIXED oxide fuels (Nuclear engineering) , *RADIOACTIVE waste repositories , *NUCLEAR fuel rods , *NUCLEAR nonproliferation , *FAST reactors , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Last summer, 11 Harvard graduate students and postdocs went to France to investigate Areva's spent fuel reprocessing. On the trip, they debated whether the United States should reprocess as well. What resulted was the typical split that has followed this debate for decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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