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RCED-83-128 1 (1983-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RESOURCES. COMMUNITY, *.. , AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION li.r .--v B-211600 MAY 9, 1983 The Honorable Richard L. Ottinger Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives 121363 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Usefulness of Federally Funded Acti- vities at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant i(GAO/RCED-83-128) In an April 9, 1982, letter you requestedI that we respond to a list of questions relating to the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant (Barnwell)--a privately owned, partially completed, com- mercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in Barnwell, South Carolina--that has received Federal funding since fiscal year 1978. As agreed with your. office, we focused our work on (1) the usefulness of Federally funded activities at Barnwell and (2) the status of Barnwell and its potential to become oper- ational. We also agreed to provide you with ' separate report on each area. This report presents our review of the usefulness of Federally funded activities at Barnwell. Commercial reprocessing involves separating the remaining uranium and plutonium contained in the spent fuel of commercial nuclear reactors to recover the fissionable material for reuse as reactor fuel. Barnwell was intended to be the first large- scale commercial reprocessing plant in the United States.2 Plant construction began in February 1971; however, before the plant could become operational, President Carter announced in iThe Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production, House Committee on Science and Technology, sent us a similar request on May 24, 1982. 2A smaller commercial reprocessing plant at West Valley, New York, operated between 1966 and 1972. Its owners terminated operations when they decided it would be uneconomical to make plant modifications necessary to meet new licensing require- ments. A second plant, constructed in Morris, Illinois, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, never operated because of short- comings attributed to design. 7 (305183)

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