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SRS needs more space for spent nuclear fuel Savannah River Site will need more storage space to sustain a program to safeguard spent nuclear fuel recovered from foreign nations. Currently, the 15,000 assemblies stored at the site's heavily fortified L Area have filled more than 90 percent of available space, said Dawn Gillis, the site's used fuel program manager, during a briefing Tuesday before the SRS Citizens Advisory Board. The material is from both foreign and domestic research reactors and contains highly enriched uranium - a critical ingredient of nuclear weapons. Although available storage space is nearly full, the National Nuclear Security Administration's "Global Threat Reduction Initiative" will continue through 2019, with an additional 4,884 assemblies already identified for shipment to South Carolina. [ link to chronicle.augusta.com]
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