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RCED-85-47 1 (1984-12-13)

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                   UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
       OWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


 RESOURCVS, COMMUNITY,
ANO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT                               DECEMSER 13, 1984
     DIVISION


     B-217124




     The Honorable Richard L. Ottinger
     Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy
        Conservation and Power
      Committee on Energy and Commerce
      House of Representatives

      Dear Mr. Chairman:

           Subject: Return of Spent Nuclear Fuel from Foreign
                     Research Reactors to the United States
                     (GAO/RCED-85-47)

           Your letter of June 12, 1984, requested that we examine
      whether the public's health and safety are adequately protected
      when spent nuclear fuel from foreign research reactors is returned
      to the Department of Energy (DOE) for reprocessing1 and dis-
      posal. Discussions with your office indicated that you are
      specifically interested in determining (1) the amount of spent
      fuel that has been and is projected to be received from foreign
      countries, (2) who has title to the fuel and who is responsible
      for the fuel while it is in transit, (3) the organizations and
      agencies responsible for ensuring that public health and safety
      are adequately protected, and what inspections are performed,
      (4) if the federal government and/or states have planned to
      respond to an accident that might occur during a shipment of
      research reactor fuel, and (5) the final disposition of the spent
      fuel.





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       'Reprocessing of spent research reactor fuel is a chemical
       process that separates and extracts the unused enriched uranium
       for subsequent reuse from the irradiated or spent fuel.


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