Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Transuranic (TRU) Waste Acceptance Criteria - development, application, and quality assurance
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a Research and Development Facility for demonstrating the safe disposal of defense TRU radioactive waste. It is funded by the Office of Defense Programs within the Department of Energy, and is now under construction near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is designed to receive the waste in approved shipping containers, prepare the waste packages for underground storage, transport them to the salt bed storage locations 2100 feet below the surface, and store them retrievably. In order that the WIPP mission may be safely conducted, the waste must comply with the WIPP Waste Acceptance Criteria (WIPP-WAC). Regulations for radioactive or hazardous materials will apply to shipments to WIPP. The waste acceptance criteria were developed to assure safety in all phases of the demonstration, including transportation, handling, and disposal. The criteria also assure that the waste containers will not degrade, and will be retrievable for at least twenty years after being emplaced in WIPP. 2 refs.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Savannah River Operations Office, Aiken, SC; USDOE Albuquerque Operations Office, NM; USDOE, Washington, DC
- OSTI ID:
- 5678645
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SR-1; CONF-8506114-1; ON: DE85012023
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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