Date of Issue - September 1996

Spent Fuel Covered by this Plan	DOE-owned Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) SNF returned to the United States from Foreign Research Reactors.
Objectives and Strategies	Remove remaining vulnerabilities Make as much spent fuel as possible ready for disposal Substantially reduce the cost of continued storage Eliminate and manage the most serious risks Reduce mortgage and support costs, making funds available for further risk reduction Protect worker health and safety Reduce generation of wastes Create a collaborative relationship between DOE and its regulators and stakeholders Focus technology development on cost and risk reduction Strengthen management and financial control
Vision of the Future - 2006	Any needed dry handling facilities and dry storage facilities in place, and the majority of the DOE-owned SNF transferred to dry storage Prepared the SNF for disposition in a geologic repository Processed at Savannah River all the degraded fuel and targets approved for such processing Resolved or eliminated vulnerabilities identified in Plans of Action to Resolve SNF Vulnerabilities Successfully safeguarded highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Foreign Research Reactors that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons