converting tails, page-2

there was also some interesting comment re tails earlier in the document! they see them as assets rather than waste!!!




We're worried -- there is some concern on our part that it would eliminate options if as soon as a tail is generated that it meets -- it is classified as a waste at that point in time.
COMMISSIONER JACZKO: The options mean some of the shipments back to the U.K. that you talked about?
MR. SMITH: That is correct. The shipments, being able to store it on our sites so we can reprocess it and extract more of the uranium 235. It can complicate our ability to utilize it as an asset. For instance, we can store some of our cylinders at another facility waiting to bring it back to our site and reprocess.
We would see that as a storage of an asset instead of a waste. I think the DOE's tails are a perfect example. They're worth billions of dollars to the U.S. taxpayers as an asset. It's not a waste at this point in time.