Beneficially reusing LLRW the Savannah River Site Stainless Steel Program

Conference · Thu Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:10192052

Boettinger, W L

With 68 radioactively contaminated excess Process Water Heat Exchangers the Savannah River Site launched its program to turn potential LLRW metal liabilities into assets. Each Heat Exchanger contains approximately 100 tons of 304 Stainless Steel and could be disposed as LLRW by land burial. Instead the 7000 tons of metal will be recycled into LLRW, HLW, and TRU waste containers thereby eliminating the need for near term land disposal and also eliminating the need to add more clean metal to the waste stream. Aspects of the partnership between DOE and Private Industry necessary to accomplish this new mission are described. A life cycle cost analysis associated with past practices of using carbon steel containers to indefinitely store material (contributing to the creation of today`s legacy waste problems) is presented. The avoided cost calculations needed to support the economics of the ``Indifference`` decision process in assessing the Beneficial Reuse option relative to the Burial option are described.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 10192052
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-93-286; CONF-931207-1; ON: DE94002044; TRN: 93:024167
• Resource Relation: Conference: 15. annual DOE low-level radioactive waste management conference,Phoenix, AZ (United States),1-3 Dec 1993; Other Information: PBD: 9 Sep 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
CONTAINERS
RECYCLING
STAINLESS STEELS
COST
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
CARBON STEELS
STORAGE FACILITIES
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
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SHIPPING CONTAINERS
TRANSPORT, HANDLING, AND STORAGE
WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE