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Title: Hazardous constituent source term. Revision 2

Abstract

The Department of Energy (DOE) has several facilities that either generate and/or store transuranic (TRU)-waste from weapons program research and production. Much of this waste also contains hazardous waste constituents as regulated under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Toxicity characteristic metals in the waste principally include lead, occurring in leaded rubber gloves and shielding. Other RCRA metals may occur as contaminants in pyrochemical salt, soil, debris, and sludge and solidified liquids, as well as in equipment resulting from decontamination and decommissioning activities. Volatile organic compounds (VOCS) contaminate many waste forms as a residue adsorbed on surfaces or occur in sludge and solidified liquids. Due to the presence of these hazardous constituents, applicable disposal regulations include land disposal restrictions established by Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA). The DOE plans to dispose of TRU-mixed waste from the weapons program in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) by demonstrating no-migration of hazardous constituents. This paper documents the current technical basis for methodologies proposed to develop a post-closure RCRA hazardous constituent source term. For the purposes of demonstrating no-migration, the hazardous constituent source term is defined as the quantities of hazardous constituents that are available for transport aftermore » repository closure. Development of the source term is only one of several activities that will be involved in the no-migration demonstration. The demonstration will also include uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of contaminant transport.« less

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10104237
Report Number(s):
CONF-941244-Summ.
ON: DE95003736; NC: NONE
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: System prioritization method workshop,Carlsbad, NM (United States),8-9 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: 17 Nov 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SOILS; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; VOLATILE MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; METALS; WIPP; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; 052002; 540230; 540220; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT; CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT

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. Hazardous constituent source term. Revision 2. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
. Hazardous constituent source term. Revision 2. United States.
. 1994. "Hazardous constituent source term. Revision 2". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10104237.
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