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Title: Risk assessment for the transportation of radioactive zeolite liners

Abstract

The risk is estimated for the shipment of radioactive zeolite liners in support of the Zeolite Vitrification Demonstration Program currently underway at Pacific Northwest Laboratory under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy. This program will establish the feasibility of zeolite vitrification as an effective means of immobilizing high-specific-activity wastes. In this risk assessment, it is assumed that two zeolite liners, each loaded around July 1, 1981 to 60,000 Ci, will be shipped by truck around January 1, 1982. However, to provide a measure of conservatism, each liner is assumed to initially hole 70,000 Ci, with the major radioisotopes as follow: /sup 90/Sr = 3000 Ci, /sup 134/Cs = 7000 Ci, /sup 137/Cs = 60,000 Ci. Should shipment take place with essentially no delay after initial loading (regardless of loading date), the shipment loading would be only 2.7% higher than that for the assumed six-month delay. This would negligibly affect the overall risk. As a result of this risk assessment, it is concluded that the transport of the radioactive zeolite liners from TMI to PNL by truck can be conducted at an insignificant level of risk to the public.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5295817
Report Number(s):
PNL-4032
ON: DE82008034; TRN: 82-012826
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZEOLITES; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; LINERS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SOLIDIFICATION; STRONTIUM 90; TRUCKS; VITRIFICATION; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DOSES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INORGANIC ION EXCHANGERS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ION EXCHANGE MATERIALS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MINERALS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; POPULATIONS; PROCESSING; RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; VEHICLES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 050900* - Nuclear Fuels- Transport, Handling, & Storage; 052001 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing; 054000 - Nuclear Fuels- Health & Safety

Citation Formats

. Risk assessment for the transportation of radioactive zeolite liners. United States: N. p., 1982. Web. doi:10.2172/5295817.
. Risk assessment for the transportation of radioactive zeolite liners. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5295817
. 1982. "Risk assessment for the transportation of radioactive zeolite liners". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5295817. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5295817.
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abstractNote = {The risk is estimated for the shipment of radioactive zeolite liners in support of the Zeolite Vitrification Demonstration Program currently underway at Pacific Northwest Laboratory under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy. This program will establish the feasibility of zeolite vitrification as an effective means of immobilizing high-specific-activity wastes. In this risk assessment, it is assumed that two zeolite liners, each loaded around July 1, 1981 to 60,000 Ci, will be shipped by truck around January 1, 1982. However, to provide a measure of conservatism, each liner is assumed to initially hole 70,000 Ci, with the major radioisotopes as follow: /sup 90/Sr = 3000 Ci, /sup 134/Cs = 7000 Ci, /sup 137/Cs = 60,000 Ci. Should shipment take place with essentially no delay after initial loading (regardless of loading date), the shipment loading would be only 2.7% higher than that for the assumed six-month delay. This would negligibly affect the overall risk. As a result of this risk assessment, it is concluded that the transport of the radioactive zeolite liners from TMI to PNL by truck can be conducted at an insignificant level of risk to the public.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982}
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