Strategy analysis for krypton-85 waste management

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5916658

Knecht, D A; Brown, R A

Krypton-85 is a chemically inert, radioactive gas produced by fission of uranium or plutonium isotopes. Depending on the fuel cycle, krypton-85 production in nuclear reactors may range from approx. 200 to approx. 600 kCi/GW/sub e/-year. However, the EPA has published a standard restricting krypton-85 release to 50 kCi/GW/sub e/-year for fuel irradiated after January 1, 1983. To conform with the federal standard, recovery and storage of krypton-85 will be required in some nuclear fuel cycle processes. The long-term waste management of krypton-85 poses unique judgemental problems. Release, recovery, immobilization, and storage (individually, and in combinations), involve a wide range of environmental, economic, and social commitments. The choice of applicable technologies, if such technologies are to be used at all, imposes another set of boundary conditions. This strategy analysis describes the use of a general framework for decision-making in evaluating krypton-85 waste management systems. Such a framework can be further used to provide technical assessment and dose-probability calculations for individual technologies, and to show the interactions among technological options required for the overall waste management scheme.

• Research Organization: Allied Chemical Corp., Idaho Falls, ID (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-07-1570
• OSTI ID: 5916658
• Report Number(s): CONF-791103-17; TRN: 79-019794
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Nuclear Society meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 12 Nov 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
KRYPTON 85
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
DECISION MAKING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
KRYPTON ISOTOPES
MANAGEMENT
NUCLEI
PROCESSING
RADIOISOTOPES
STORAGE
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTE STORAGE
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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