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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This report describing a study of the feasibility of the denatured 233U fuel cycle
integrates the data and contributions of a number of national laboratories and government
contractors. Those of us at ORNL who have been responsible for compiling and editing the
report wish to acknowledge the assistance of many individuals who actively participated
in the study throughout the many iterations leading to this final draft. In particular,
we wish to thank Carol Sege and Saul Strauch of the U.S. Department of Energy for their
guidance during the entire program; C. M. Newstead of Brookhaven National Laboratory for
the proliferation-risk assessment; E. H. Gift of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant
for the analysis of the potential circumvention of the fuel isotope barrier; Y. Chang of
Argonne National Laboratory, J. C. Cleveland and P. R. Kasten of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, R. P. Omberg of the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory, and N. L.
Shapiro of Combustion Engineering, Inc. for the characterizations of reactor and fuel
cycle technologies; and R. P. Omberg and R. W. Hardie of Hanford Engineering Development
Laboratory for the system economics-resources analysis. These, in turn, were assisted
by several contributing authors as listed on page iii.
Many others have provided data or participated in reviews of the various chapters,
and to each of them we express our appreciation.
secretaries and report production staff members who have so patiently prepared numerous
drafts of this report.
Finally, we wish to thank the many
Irving Spiewak
David E. Bartine
Thomas J. Burns
Lorraine S. Abbott