Assessment of impacts from different waste treatment and waste disposal technologies: Regional Management Plan

Technical Report · Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5202023

Robertson, B C; Sutherland, A A

This report presents assessments of treatment and disposal technologies that appear to be appropriate for use in regional facilities in the Midwest Compact Region. The treatment technologies assessed: compaction with a supercompactor; incineration; and incineration followed by solidfication of the incinerator ash. The disposal technologies assessed are: shallow land burial, considered a baseline for comparison of other technologies; below-ground vaults; abov-groudn vaults; the earth mounded concrete bunker, a technology developed in France; improved shallow land burial, essentially deeper burial; modular concrete canister disposal; mined cavities (both new and existing); and unlined augered holes; and lined augered holes. The teatment technologies are assessed primarily in terms of the their impact on the waste management system, and generally not comparatively. The dispoal technologies are assessed relative to the present standard practice shallow land burial; shallow land burial was slected as a frame of reference because it has an experience base spanning several decades, not because of any preferential characteristics. 20 refs., 5 tabs.

• Research Organization: Rogers and Associates Engineering Corp., Salt Lake City, UT (USA); ERM-McGlennon Associates, Boston, MA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG07-85ID12576
• OSTI ID: 5202023
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/12576-T8; RAE-8503/2-2; ON: DE88008155
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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