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Weaver NRC reappointment gets OK, Senate vote next
The U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee has recommended Douglas Weaver be reappointed to a full five-year term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after his current term expires on June 30.
The committee voted 15-4 in support of Weaver’s nomination on Wednesday, clearing the way for a final vote on the Senate floor. If the Senate votes to confirm Weaver, he would serve on the NRC through June 30, 2031.
Heinz Dworschak, Brian A. Hunt, Francesco Mannone, Francis Mousty
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 3 | June 1983 | Pages 432-443
Technical Paper | New Directions in Nuclear Energy with Emphasis on Fuel Cycles / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33166
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The importance of waste categories other than high-activity waste in the context of long-term risk potential has been increasingly stressed over the last few years. Particular emphasis has been placed on the need for improved techniques for alpha waste reduction, conditioning, and disposal. One way to achieve this is based on an oxalate precipitation technique that recovers the actinides from all liquid alpha waste stream sources. As a result, a fully integrated alpha waste management is conceived that provides a rework unit for plutonium recovery, operating on line with reprocessing and with added incentives, such as savings in fissile material, reduced downtime, reduced medium level liquid waste volumes, and the possibility of confining neptunium and its precursors to a single stream.