The Energy Department is considering importing about 24, 000 spent fuel elements from Europe.
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Nuclear fuel elements are made at Sellafield and are transported by rail to reactors around the coast; spent fuel elements are returned the same route.
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So far, only one permanent repository has been designated for for nuclear wastes and it is being developed primarily to store spent fuel elements from the civilian nuclear power industry.
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The HFIR Gamma Irradiation Facility is an experiment facility in the High Flux Isotope Reactor designed to irradiate materials with gamma radiation from the spent fuel elements in the HFIR loading station in the clean pool.
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"It's our judgment that the benefits for international security far outweigh the inconsequential environmental risk of adding 409 spent fuel elements to the large quantity of nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site, " said Jacob Scherr, a senior lawyer with the group.
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