Some aspects of low-level radioactive-waste disposal in the US
Conference
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OSTI ID:5087549
This report summarizes the NRC supported Shallow Land Burial research program at Brookhaven National Laboraotry and its relationship to the proposed revised ruling on disposal of low level radioactive waste, 10 CFR Part 61. Section of the proposed regulation, which establish the new low level waste classification system and the performance objective placed on waste form, are described briefly. The report also summarizes the preliminary results obtained from the EPA program in which low level waste drums were retrieved from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 5087549
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-NUREG-31328; CONF-8206106-2; ON: DE82019352
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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