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The Department of Energy should downblend its excess highly enriched uranium and sell it as fuel for nuclear reactors.
unknown title 2009
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The Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) in Seversk -- the only Russian site with existing capacity and expertise in all steps in the downblend process -- could easily provide the platform for a new, optimized downblend effort.
Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Laura S. H. Holgate 2008
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A new, expanded downblend approach should certainly consider some adjustments -- i.e., optimizing the process to minimize HEU transportation and broadening its scope to include any excess HEU, not just ex-weapons HEU.
Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Laura S. H. Holgate 2008
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Please contact us at idrake@pogo. org or at 202-347-1122 if you have any information on what is holding up DOE's effort to downblend HEU.
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