Integrated data base report--1996: US spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste inventories, projections, and characteristics

Technical Report · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/574220· OSTI ID:574220

The Integrated Data Base Program has compiled historic data on inventories and characteristics of both commercial and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and commercial and U.S. government-owned radioactive wastes. Inventories of most of these materials are reported as of the end of fiscal year (FY) 1996, which is September 30, 1996. Commercial SNF and commercial uranium mill tailings inventories are reported on an end-of-calendar year (CY) basis. All SNF and radioactive waste data reported are based on the most reliable information available from government sources, the open literature, technical reports, and direct contacts. The information forecasted is consistent with the latest DOE/Energy Information Administration (EIA) projections of U.S. commercial nuclear power growth and the expected DOE-related and private industrial and institutional activities. The radioactive materials considered, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, are SNF, high-level waste, transuranic waste, low-level waste, uranium mill tailings, DOE Environmental Restoration Program contaminated environmental media, naturally occurring and accelerator-produced radioactive material, and mixed (hazardous and radioactive) low-level waste. For most of these categories, current and projected inventories are given through FY 2030, and the radioactivity and thermal power are calculated based on reported or estimated isotopic compositions.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-96OR22464
• OSTI ID: 574220
• Report Number(s): DOE/RW--0006-Rev.13; ON: DE98003259
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DATA COMPILATION
FORECASTING
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
INVENTORIES
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MILL TAILINGS
NONRADIOACTIVE WASTES
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
SPENT FUELS
US DOE