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[en] Tritium, a radioactive gas used in all of the Nation's nuclear weapons, has a short half-life and must be replaced periodically in order for the weapon to operate as designed. Currently, there is no capability to produce the required amounts of tritium within the Nuclear Weapons Complex. The PEIS for Tritium Supply and Recycling evaluates the alternatives for the siting, construction, and operation of tritium supply and recycling facilities at each of five candidate sites: the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, the Nevada Test Site, the Oak Ridge Reservation, the Pantex Plant, and the Savannah River Site. Alternatives for new tritium supply and recycling facilities consist of four different tritium supply technologies: Heavy Water Reactor, Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor, Advanced Light Water Reactor, and Accelerator Production of Tritium. The PEIS also evaluates the impacts of the DOE purchase of an existing operating or partially completed commercial light water reactor or the DOE purchase of irradiation services contracted from commercial power reactors. Additionally, the PEIS includes an analysis of multipurpose reactors that would produce tritium, dispose of plutonium, and produce electricity. Evaluation of impacts on land resources, site infrastructure, air quality and acoustics, water resources, geology and soils, biotic resources, cultural and paleontological resources, socioeconomics, radiological and hazardous chemical impacts during normal operation and accidents to workers and the public, waste management, and intersite transport are included in the assessment
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Oct 1995; 79 p; CONTRACT AC02-91DP00196; Also available from OSTI as DE97001838; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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ACCELERATORS, AIR QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, NEVADA TEST SITE, OAK RIDGE RESERVATION, PANTEX PLANT, PLANTS, PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION REACTORS, RADIATION ACCIDENTS, RADIATION DOSES, RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT, RECYCLING, RISK ASSESSMENT, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, SOILS, TRITIUM, WATER COOLED REACTORS
ACCIDENTS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, US AEC, US DOE, US ERDA, US ORGANIZATIONS, WASTE MANAGEMENT, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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