Supplemental information related to risk assessment for the off-site transportation of transuranic waste for the U.S. Department of Energy waste management programmatic environmental impact statement

Technical Report · Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/564062· OSTI ID:564062

Monette, F A; Biwer, B M; LePoire, D J; Chen, S Y ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Environmental Assessment Div.

This report presents supplemental information to support the human health risk assessment conducted for the transportation of transuranic waste (TRUW) in support of the US Department of Energy Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (WM PEIS). Detailed descriptions of the transportation health risk assessment method and results of the assessment are presented in Appendix E of the WM PEIS and are not repeated in this report. This report presents additional information that is not presented in Appendix E but is necessary to conduct the transportation risk assessment for Waste Management (WM) contact- and remote-handed (CH and RH) TRUW. Included are definitions of the TRUW alternatives considered in the WM PEIS, data related to the inventory and to the physical and radiological characteristics of CH and RH TRUW, and detailed results of the assessment for each WM TRUW case considered.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 564062
• Report Number(s): ANL/EAD/TM-27; ON: DE98001961; TRN: 98:003241
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
WASTE TRANSPORTATION
HEALTH HAZARDS
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
CONTACT HANDLING
REMOTE HANDLING
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIOISOTOPES
NUMERICAL DATA