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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Harry J. Otway, Ronald K. Lohrding, Morris E. Battat
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 3 | July 1971 | Pages 323-330
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosion Engineering / Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30865
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A method is presented for estimating the risk to the public from an underground Plowshare detonation, with a sample application to a hypothetical gas storage experiment. The method considers the probability of fission-product release as well as the frequencies of various wind and weather conditions. The fission-product release vs probability relationships were determined by a statistical analysis of applicable Nevada Test Site data, using a multivariate discriminate analysis technique. These relationships may be applied to most Plowshare underground engineering applications with the exception of those in media having formation pressure, such as natural gas stimulation. Results of the sample application indicate that the risks to the public from a Plowshare detonation are very small and that consideration should be given to executing experiments without planning for specific weather conditions.