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2. REPROCESSING Response<br />

Chapter 7.0 <strong>of</strong> the final Statement examines waste<br />

The final Statement should summarize in one place the comparative waste management impacts from a systems viewpoint. System impacts<br />

management implications both <strong>of</strong> continuing and <strong>of</strong> discontinuing the are outlined for various nuclear growth scenarios, repository<br />

present reset moratorium moratorium on reprocessing. repoessi. availability dates, and commercial fuel cycles (i.e., once-<br />

The consequences <strong>of</strong> the present moratorium against reprocessing <strong>of</strong> through-no reprocessing, U and Pu recycle-reprocessing).<br />

spent fuel elements are not explicitly summarized. A change in this Retrievability is designed for increasing assurance <strong>of</strong><br />

reprocessing policy, viewed by many as inevitable, would make portions <strong>of</strong> program safety, not for the purpose <strong>of</strong> recovery for future "<br />

the Statement obsolete. The costs and benefits, risks, and time reprocessing. The only materials which are to be placed in<br />

associated with planned retrievability should be included in the Statement. a repository are those which have been fully characterized<br />

as waste. A determination as to whether spent fuel is a<br />

The high-level wastes associated with possible breeder reactors should waste product or a resource will be made prior to a reposi-<br />

also .be described in conparison with those from other sources. tory becoming operational.

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