Managing Transuranic wastes at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico - A Small Quantity Site
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OSTI ID:21210690
- Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 (United States)
- Weston Solutions, Inc., 6565 Americas Parkway NE, Suite 200, Albuquerque, NM 87110 (United States)
Since 1949. Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) has conducted research and development activities in support of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and other federal agencies in partnership with universities and industry (1). Several of these projects have generated transuranic (TRU) or suspect TRU wastes. Since the early 1990's the TRU waste has been accepted for storage by the Radioactive Waste/Nuclear Material Disposition Department. The majority of the waste is eligible for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), but will require additional management activities to be initiated and completed at SNL/M before the waste is transported to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for characterization, certification, and final transport to WIPP. SNL/NM is working with the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) to finalize work off-plans for this legacy waste. A joint project between SNL/NM and LANL at SNL/NM will also create newly-generated TRU waste over the next few years. The SNL./NM waste management personnel have been working with the legacy waste project staff to assemble the information required to prepare a TRAMPAC document for shipment of this waste to LANL. By meeting requirements and documenting processes, inputs, and packaging early, SNL/NM hopes to assemble all the necessary information for AK and transportation before the waste is ever generated. This paper will discuss the present and future inventory of TRU waste stored at SNL/NM and the path forward for transport to LANL. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 13023, Tucson, AZ, 85732-3023 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21210690
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--09-WM-06418
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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