Transport of Oak Ridge Reservation Legacy High Moisture Low Level Waste: Overcoming the Challenge
- MHF Logistical Solutions, 685 Emory Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (United States)
- Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC, 4699 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 (United States)
Several years of mission specific enriched uranium production, laboratory testing, weapons production, construction, maintenance, and environmental remediation at the DOE Oak Ridge Reservation Plants, K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Y-12 National Security Complex, resulted in an accumulation of 1.2 million cubic feet of low-level waste (LLW). This population of LLW is known as legacy LLW based on its generation time frame of 1970 through 2000. Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC was awarded an Oak Ridge Accelerated Cleanup Project that includes the characterization, processing, and disposal of the 1.2 million cubic feet of legacy LLW. The legacy LLW encompasses wastes from several generation facilities and organizations, within various container types, containing a wide range of radiological isotopes, and a blend of matrixes, each presenting a unique challenge in completion of disposal by September 30, 2005. The characterization results identified the presence of free liquids and the potential for free liquids stratification within several matrixes in the legacy LLW inventory comprised of soils, sludges, treatment residues, resins, and trapping materials. As a result of these findings, Bechtel Jacobs, WESKEM, and MHF Logistical Solutions, Inc. collaborated on the disposition strategy and designed a unique transportation technique that was employed to ensure that the high moisture content wastes were safely and compliantly transported within the time allocated under the Accelerated Cleanup Project. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 13023, Tucson, AZ, 85732-3023 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21208567
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-09-WM-06039; TRN: US09V0878079354
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2006 Symposium - WM'06 - Global Accomplishments in Environmental and Radioactive Waste Management: Education and Opportunity for the Next Generation of Waste Management Professionals, Tucson, AZ (United States), 26 Feb - 2 Mar 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 4 refs
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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