Environmental development plan for special nuclear materials production
The scope of this Environmental Development Plan (EDP) follows the Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) Production category of the Department of Energy budget. It includes the process steps and facilities necessary for the production of plutonium and tritium for Government needs and the production of some other radioactive materials that will be used for heat and radiation sources by domestic and international customers. Most of the SNM production is now carried out at the Savannah River Plant, but plutonium is still produced at Hanford. This EDP does not address the mining, milling, or enrichment of the uranium, but it does consider the reactor fuel (and target) fabrication facilities. The production reactors and the spent fuel processing plants and their effluents are discussed here, but the defense wastes from them are treated in a separate EDP. The scope does not include transportation, decontamination and decommissioning, safeguards and security, or use of the SNM products.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Assistant Secretary for Environment
- OSTI ID:
- 5221386
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/EDP-0056; TRN: 80-014790
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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