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Title: Waste Receiving and Processing Facility Module 1: Volume 1, Preliminary Design report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10148379

The Preliminary Design Report (Title 1) for the Waste Receiving and Processing (WRAP) Module 1 provides a comprehensive narrative description of the proposed facility and process systems, the basis for each of the systems design, and the engineering assessments that were performed to support the technical basis of the Title 1 design. The primary mission of the WRAP 1 Facility is to characterize and certify contact-handled (CH) waste in 55-gallon drums for disposal. Its secondary function is to certify CH waste in Standard Waste Boxes (SWBs) for disposal. The preferred plan consist of retrieving the waste and repackaging as necessary in the Waste Receiving and Processing (WRAP) facility to certify TRU waste for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. WIPP is a research and development facility designed to demonstrate the safe and environmentally acceptable disposal of TRU waste from National Defense programs. Retrieved waste found to be Low-Level Waste (LLW) after examination in the WRAP facility will be disposed of on the Hanford site in the low-level waste burial ground. The Hanford Site TRU waste will be shipped to the WIPP for disposal between 1999 and 2013.

Research Organization:
United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Englewood, CO (United States). Western Operations
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-91RL11946
OSTI ID:
10148379
Report Number(s):
DOE/RL/11946-1-Vol.1; ON: DE92015015
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English