RESEARCH & STUFF

REPROCESSING GENERALLY

Managing Spent Fuel in the United States: The Illogic of Reprocessing (Jan. 2007 – 39 pages)
International Panel on Fissile Materials Research Report, Dr. Frank von Hippel, nuclear physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It’s Worth (April 2008 – 5 pages)
Scientific American article by Frank N. Von Hippel, nuclear physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Co-Chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials Technology Policy

Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding (June 2007 – 108 pages)
The Keystone Center, Catherine Morris and Jeremy Kranowitz

Nuclear Spent Fuel Recycling (June 2008 – 6 pages)
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies

Nuclear Waste Reprocessing and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP): A Failed Approach (2 pages)
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive (May 2008 – 2 pages)
Union of Concerned Scientists Fact Sheet

Risky Appropriations: Gambling US Energy Policy on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (June 2008 – 57 pages)
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies

The Future of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP): Domestic Stakeholders (Aug. 2008 – 5 pages)
Leonor Tomero, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

The Future of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP): Next Steps (Aug. 2008 – 3 pages)
Leonor Tomero, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Top Ten Talking Points on the Environmental Devastation Caused by Reprocessing High-Level Radioactive Waste (5 pages)
Compiled by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear

REPROCESSING IN OTHER COUNTRIES:

Japan’s Spent Fuel and Plutonium Management Challenges (September 2006 – 33 pages)
International Panel on Fissile Materials Research Report, Tadahiro Katsuta , University of Tokyo, and Tatsujiro Suzuki, Institute of Energy Economics of Japan

Producing Plutonium at Rokkasho-mura (October 2004 – 2 pages)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report,Joseph Cirincione & Jon Wolfsthal

Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing in France (April 2008 – 60 pages)
International Panel on Fissile Materials Research Report, Mycle Schneider and Yves Marignac, Energy Information Agency WISE-Paris

COST OF REPROCESSING:

Costs of Reprocessing versus Directly Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel (Nov. 2007 – 14 pages)
Congressional Budget Office Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources

Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separation and Transmutation Systems (1996)
National Research Council, National Academy Press

Review of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program (2007)
National Research Council, National Academy Press

The Economics of Reprocessing versus Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel (June 2005 – 128 pages)
Matthew Bunn, John P. Holdren, et al., Nuclear Technology, vol. 150.

The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study (2003)
John Deutsch, Ernest J. Moniz et al.
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SAVANNAH RIVER SITE:

Danger Lurks Below: The Threat to Major Water Supplies from US Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Plant, chapter 15 on Savannah River Site (April 2004 – 17 pages)
Radioactive Waste Management Associates, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site (1999 – 3 pages)
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Fact Sheet

Technical and Strategic Advice for the Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management’s Development of a Cleanup Technology Roadmap – Interim Report (February 2008 – 15 pages)
Edwin Przybylowicz, Chair, and Allen Croff, Vice-Chair, National Academies of Science Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board

WEST VALLEY:

A Brief History of Reprocessing and Cleanup in West Valley, NY (March 2008 – 2 pages)
Union of Concerned Scientists Fact Sheet

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
U.S. Department of Energy website on reprocessing – see especially “Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative”

South Carolina Climate, Energy & Commerce Advisory Committee Website featuring final report of the Governor’s Committee on Climate Change