An assessment of the effect of TRU waste definition on the cost of transporting contact handled transuranic defense wastes to a repository

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Nucl. Chem. Waste Manage.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-815X(83)90043-8· OSTI ID:5405043

Pope, R B; Reese, R T; Romesberg, L E

Transuranic (TRU) defense wastes are being, and will continue to be, moved between a number of locations in the United States. The DOE is sponsoring the development of safe, efficient, licensable, and cost-effective transportation systems to handle these wastes. One system being developed for transporting contact-handled TRU wastes has been named TRUPACT which stands for TRansUranic PACkage Transporter. The first packaging design in the TRUPACT family will be identified as TRUPACT-I, and will be bimodal, capable of truck or rail carriage. TRUPACT-I will be compatible with Type A packagings used by waste generators, interim storage facilities, and repositories. The TRUPACT packagings are required to be Type B packagings since larger than Type A quantities of some radionuclides (particularly plutonium) are often contained in the Type A packagings in which the wastes are placed for storage and disposal. TRUPACT must provide structural and thermal protection to the waste when exposed to normal transport and hypothetical accident environments specified in Federal regulations. The TRUPACT-I is described in this paper. The costs associated with transporting contacthandled TRU wastes produced as part of the defense program from waste sources to a terminal waste repository for the first 20 years of repository operation are defined. The effects on the costs of changing the definition of transuranic wastes from greater than 10 to greater than 100 nCi/g are also presented.

• Research Organization: Transportation Technology Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5405043
• Journal Information: Nucl. Chem. Waste Manage.; (United States), Journal Name: Nucl. Chem. Waste Manage.; (United States) Vol. 4:1; ISSN NCWMD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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