Waste Operations Evaluations Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- MSE Technology Applications, Inc., P.O. Box 4078, Butte, MT 59701 (United States)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Environmental Management Program, P.O. Box 2001, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (United States)
The DOE Western Environmental Technology Office (WETO) is supporting Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by conducting an evaluation of the Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations (LGWO) at ORNL for future waste generation. In August 2003, UT-Battelle issued The ORNL Liquid and Gaseous Waste Treatment System Strategic Plan that provides their prioritized road-map for the development of cost-effective and upgraded liquid and gaseous waste collection and treatment systems as a part of the revitalization effort to modernize ORNL. Waste management activities at ORNL for process waste, liquid low level waste, and gaseous waste are currently managed by Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC (BJC), the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) management and integrating contractor. DOE-EM's mission is currently planned to end at the ORNL site when the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Record of Decision requirements for Bethel and Melton Valleys have been implemented, which is expected to be in the 2015 time frame. DOE-EM proposes to transfer responsibility for newly generated waste management to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) by 2006. After the release of the LGWTS Strategic Plan, DOE-EM requested that MSE Technology Applications, Inc. (MSE) conduct an evaluation of the LGWO as an independent party to assist DOE-EM in their decision-making process to transfer waste management responsibilities to DOE-SC. During fiscal year 2004, MSE designed a draft interactive model to create a material balance around the LGWO Facilities. The model consisted of a series of electronic spreadsheets showing the inputs, outputs, and interactions of all of the LGWO systems. MSE expanded on the model during fiscal year 2005 and used the model to evaluate ORNL's future waste treatment needs. In addition to the interactive model, MSE determined the future waste generators, estimated volume of waste streams for fiscal year 2015, and conducted a literature search and evaluated alternative technologies for the current waste treatment processes. This approach to consider the ever-changing waste stream contents and volumes was effective in supporting the decision-making process. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 13023, Tucson, AZ, 85732-3023 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21208654
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-09-WM-06167; TRN: US09V0965079441
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2006 Symposium - WM'06 - Global Accomplishments in Environmental and Radioactive Waste Management: Education and Opportunity for the Next Generation of Waste Management Professionals, Tucson, AZ (United States), 26 Feb - 2 Mar 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 13 refs
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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