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CONTENTS (contd)<br />

6.2.5.5 Island Disposal . . . . . . . . . . 6.198<br />

REFERENCES FOR SECTION 6.2 . . . . . . . . . . . 6.199<br />

CHAPTER 7 - SYSTEM IMPACTS OF PROGRAM ALTERNATIVES . . . . . . . 7.1<br />

7.1 BASIS FOR SYSTEM SIMULATION . 7.1<br />

7.2 METHOD OF ANALYSIS FOR SYSTEM IMPACTS . . . . . . . . 7.6<br />

7.3 SYSTEM LOGISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11<br />

7.3.1 Repository Inventory Accumulations . . . . . . . 7.13<br />

7.3.2 Interim Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . 7.18<br />

7.3.3 Transportation Requirements . . . . . . . . . 7.22<br />

7.3.4 Age <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Waste</strong> at Disposal . . . . . . . . 7.24<br />

7.3.5 Facility Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 7.26<br />

7.3.6 Equilibrium Requirements for Equilibrium Steady-State Systems . . 7.29<br />

7.3.7 Plutonium Disposition . . . . . . . . . . 7.30<br />

7.3.8 Radioactivity Inventory in Disposal Repositories . . . . 7.32<br />

7.4 SYSTEM RADIOLOGICAL IMPACTS . . . . . . . . . . 7.38<br />

7.5 SYSTEM RESOURCE COMMITMENTS . . . . . . . . . 7.42<br />

7.6 SYSTEM COSTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.46<br />

7.7 SYSTEM SIMULATION CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . 7.52<br />

REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 7 . . . . . . . . . . . 7.54<br />

CHAPTER 8 - GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS AND ACRONYMS . . 8.1

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