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Section 3116 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2005 authorizes the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, to determine that certain waste from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is not
high-level waste and that it may instead be disposed of as low-level waste if it meets
the criteria set forth in Section 3116.
Currently, the Department of Energy-Savannah River Site (DOE-SRS) is drafting a waste
determination (WD) for their F-Tank Farm (FTF). The FTF WD encompasses the closure of
the entire FTF and will not be finalized until late spring of 2010. In support of this
WD, DOE-SRS has prepared a Performance Assessment which is being provided to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for their consultation. The FTF PA can be accessed by following the
link provided below:
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