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Title: DWPF waste form compliance plan (Draft Revision)

Abstract

The Department of Energy currently has over 100 million liters of high-level radioactive waste in storage at the Savannah River Site (SRS). In the late 1970's, the Department of Energy recognized that there were significant safety and cost advantages associated with immobilizing the high-level waste in a stable solid form. Several alternative waste forms were evaluated in terms of product quality and reliability of fabrication. This evaluation led to a decision to build the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at SRS to convert the easily dispersed liquid waste to borosilicate glass. In accordance with the NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) process, an Environmental Impact Statement was prepared for the facility, as well as an Environmental Assessment of the alternative waste forms, and issuance of a Record of Decision (in December, 1982) on the waste form. The Department of Energy, recognizing that start-up of the DWPF would considerably precede licensing of a repository, instituted a Waste Acceptance Process to ensure that these canistered waste forms would be acceptable for eventual disposal at a federal repository. This report is a revision of the DWPF compliance plan.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
7149893
Report Number(s):
WSRC-SW4-6
ON: DE92013269
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-89SR18035
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; CONTAINERS; SPECIFICATIONS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE FORMS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLIANCE; GLASS; ISOTOPE RATIO; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; STABILITY; VITRIFICATION; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES; 052000* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Management

Citation Formats

Plodinec, M J, and Marra, S L. DWPF waste form compliance plan (Draft Revision). United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.2172/7149893.
Plodinec, M J, & Marra, S L. DWPF waste form compliance plan (Draft Revision). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7149893
Plodinec, M J, and Marra, S L. 1991. "DWPF waste form compliance plan (Draft Revision)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7149893. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7149893.
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title = {DWPF waste form compliance plan (Draft Revision)},
author = {Plodinec, M J and Marra, S L},
abstractNote = {The Department of Energy currently has over 100 million liters of high-level radioactive waste in storage at the Savannah River Site (SRS). In the late 1970's, the Department of Energy recognized that there were significant safety and cost advantages associated with immobilizing the high-level waste in a stable solid form. Several alternative waste forms were evaluated in terms of product quality and reliability of fabrication. This evaluation led to a decision to build the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at SRS to convert the easily dispersed liquid waste to borosilicate glass. In accordance with the NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) process, an Environmental Impact Statement was prepared for the facility, as well as an Environmental Assessment of the alternative waste forms, and issuance of a Record of Decision (in December, 1982) on the waste form. The Department of Energy, recognizing that start-up of the DWPF would considerably precede licensing of a repository, instituted a Waste Acceptance Process to ensure that these canistered waste forms would be acceptable for eventual disposal at a federal repository. This report is a revision of the DWPF compliance plan.},
doi = {10.2172/7149893},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
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