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Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management Matthew Bunn John P. Holdren Allison Macfarlane Susan E. Pickett Atsuyuki Suzuki Tatsujiro Suzuki Jennifer Weeks A Joint Report from the Harvard University Project on Managing the Atom and the University of Tokyo Project on Sociotechnics of Nuclear Energy June, 2001
© 2001 Harvard University and University of Tokyo Printed in the United States of America The co-sponsors of this report invite liberal use of the information provided in it for educational purposes, requiring only that the reproduced material clearly state: Reproduced from Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management (Cambridge, MA: Managing the Atom Project, Harvard University, and Project on Socio-technics of Nuclear Energy, University of Tokyo, 2001). The full text of this report is available at the web sites of Harvard University’s Managing the Atom Project and the Suzuki Laboratory in the University of Tokyo’s Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/bcsia/atom http://lyman.q.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp A Japanese-language text of the full report will be available at the University of Tokyo web site in the summer of 2001. This report reflects information that was current through late March of 2001.
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