Comment Summary Report

Comment Summary Report
Author: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Fissile Materials Disposition
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Total Pages: 203
Release: 1994
Genre: Nuclear weapons
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Summary Report of the Screening Process to Determine Reasonable Alternatives for Long-term Storage and Disposition of Weapons-usable Fissile Materials

Summary Report of the Screening Process to Determine Reasonable Alternatives for Long-term Storage and Disposition of Weapons-usable Fissile Materials
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Release: 1995
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Significant quantities of weapons-usable fissile materials (primarily plutonium and highly enriched uranium) have become surplus to national defense needs both in the US and Russia. These stocks of fissile materials pose significant dangers to national and international security. The dangers exist not only in the potential proliferation of nuclear weapons but also in the potential for environmental, safety and health consequences if surplus fissile materials are not properly managed. As announced in the Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), the Department of Energy is currently conducting an evaluation process for disposition of surplus weapons-usable fissile materials determined surplus to National Security needs, and long-term storage of national security and programmatic inventories, and surplus weapons-usable fissile materials that are not able to go directly from interim storage to disposition. An extensive set of long-term storage and disposition options was compiled. Five broad long-term storage options were identified; thirty-seven options were considered for plutonium disposition; nine options were considered for HEU disposition; and eight options were identified for Uranium-233 disposition. Section 2 discusses the criteria used in the screening process. Section 3 describes the options considered, and Section 4 provides a detailed summary discussions of the screening results.