Estimated costs of high-level waste management
The costs of perpetual tank storage of both acid and alkaline wastes were estimated as a function of tank size, tank life, and fission product concentration in the waste for three representative types of financing. For acid wastes, the optimum tank capacity is about a million gallons, and minimum total costs range from 0.0165 to 0.272 mill/kwhr. For alkaline wastes, the optimum tank capacity is 2.5 million gallons, and minimum total costs range from 0.0177 to 0.0294 mill/kwhr. Reducing the volume of wastes, as stored, by doubling the concentration of fission products reduces the total costs between 15 and 30%. The minimum total costs for management by the series of operations consisting of interim liquid storage, pot calcination, interim solid storage, shipment, and disposal in salt mines, are estimated to range from 0.017 to 0.020 mill/kwhr when carried out over a 30-year period.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5863320
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL-P-1926; CONF-660208-1
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Symposium on solidification and long-term storage of highly radioactive wastes, Richland, WA, USA, 14 Feb 1966
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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