Waste management (Truck and rail shipments to Hanford)
As part of the physical decommissioning of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Shippingport, PA, a large volume of Low Specific Activity (LSA) radioactive waste was accumulated. The waste, which consisted primarily of radioactive reactor plant components, piping, contaminated asbestos, tanks, building rubble, sludge and ion exchange resins was packaged and prepared for shipment. The waste was transported by truck and rail from Shippingport, PA, to the Department of Energy burial ground at Hanford, Washington, a journey of 2,329 miles. This presentation will discuss the successful management of over 2,600 packages weighing in excess of 3,600 tons of radioactive waste from the cradle-to-the-grave, that is from the time it was generated during the decommissioning process until its final burial at the Hanford, Washington burial site. 1 tab.
- Research Organization:
- General Electric Co., Shippingport, PA (USA). Nuclear Energy Business Operations
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-84RL10421; AC06-76RL01857
- OSTI ID:
- 6868204
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SSDP-0043; CONF-880903-28; ON: DE88016688; TRN: 88-033510
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Spectrum '88: international topical meeting on nuclear and hazardous waste management, Pasco, WA, USA, 11 Sep 1988; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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