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EMD-78-97 1 (1978-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxot0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DO~CURENT RISIA 064 99 - fB21271183 (Vestricted) An Evaluation of Federal Support of the larwell Reprocissing Plant and the Department of Energy's Spent Fuel Storage policy. XMD-78-97; B-151475. July 20, 1978. 23 pp. + 2 appendices 44 pp*). Report to Sen. John Glenn. Chairman, S~aatq Cjltittee cn Governmental Affairs: Energy, Nuclear Eroliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee; by Elmer B. Stoats, Coutrcllar General. Issue Area: Energy: saking Nuclear fission * Sukttastial Energy Source (1608). Contact: Energy and minerals Div. Bud4qet F ou-nc ti-oft: -Pat- - esce -aE-viro-U nut- Energy 4305). Organization Concerned: Department of lnergy; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; &llied-General Nuclear Services, .rc. Conqressional Relevance: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Comittee n Environment and PataUC Vorks; Senate Committee on Governmental Iffairs: Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services Subccmuittee. Sen. John Glenn. In April 1977, the President announced a new policy to minimize risks of nuclear weapons Froliferatien which deferred indefinitely the commercialization of technologies that reprocess or depend on the recycle of plutonium. To carry out the policy, the President proposed that neitheK Federal funding nor support should be given to complete a large commerical reprocessinq facility being constructed at Bareuell, South Carolina. Later in 1977, the Department of Energy (DM) announced that the Federal Government would begin accepting and takinq title from utilities to spent nuclear fuel that previously was to be reprocessed. Pindings/Comclusicna: At Barnwell, spent fuel is separated into uratium and plutonium. The administration finds this process unacceptable and has taken initiatives to study, along with other countries, alternative fuel cycles. Allied-General Nuclear Services, Inc. has invested about $250 million in the Barnvell complex with the encouraqement of the former Atomic Energy Coaassio and the ,'clear Requlatory Commission. The Ccvgresa has recently funded :esearch activites at Barnvell relating to spent fuel handling and storaqe, security and safeguards, and alternative fuel cycles. The administration believes this work duplicates othez research efforts and should not be continued. GAO believes that the Conqress should continue to fund short-term research studieus at Barnwell until the completion of the internaticnal study on alternative fuel cycle technologies. Interim storage of spent fuel has become a part of the nuclear fuel cycle. It would be premature for DOE to build a new Governamnt-financed spent fuel storaqe facility before considering cthex alteznativas. Recommendations: The Jecretary# DOE, k-efore eci4-ig to b-uild a

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