Life cycle cost estimating of waste management facilities

Technical Report · Sat Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:111593

Shropshire, D ^[1]; Feizollahi, F; Teheranian, B; Waldman, M ^[2]

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1. EG&G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Morrison Knudsen Corporation, San Francisco, CA (United States)

Waste Management Facilities cost Information (WMFCI) provides a modular cost method for estimating planning-level life-cycle costs of waste management alternatives. This methodology includes over 120 cost modules that cover a variety of treatment, storage, disposal, and support facility options. The WMFCI method can be used to estimate virtually every technology option and related facilities needed by the Department of Energy for cradle-to-grave management of hazardous, radioactive, mixed waste, and spent nuclear fuel. Various waste streams covered by the WMFCI are low-level waste (LLW), mixed low-level waste (MLLW), alpha contaminated LLW, alpha contaminated MLLW, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, Greater-Than-Class C and DOE equivalent special case wastes, and hazardous wastes. The methodology also contains cost versus capacity relationships for each cost module to aid in estimating various waste management configurations.

• Research Organization: Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States). Coll. of Engineering and Mines; New Mexico State Univ., University Park, NM (United States); Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC), Las Cruces, NM (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 111593
• Report Number(s): CONF-940225--Vol.3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
COST ESTIMATION
LIFE-CYCLE COST
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT