Integrated data base for 1990: US spent fuel and radioactive waste inventories, projections, and characteristics

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6162195

The Integrated Data Base (IDB) Program has compiled current data on inventories and characteristics of commercial spent fuel and both commercial and US government-owned radioactive wastes through December 31, 1989. These data are based on the most reliable information available from government sources, the open literature, technical reports, and direct contacts. The current projections of future waste and spent fuel to be generated through the year 2020 and characteristics of these materials are also presented. The information forecasted is consistent with the latest US Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration (DOE/EIA) projections of US commercial nuclear power growth and the expected DOE-related and private industrial and institutional (I/I) activities. The radioactive materials considered, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, are spent fuel, high-level waste, transuranic waste, low-level waste, commercial uranium mill tailings, environmental restoration wastes, commercial reactor and fuel cycle facility decommissioning wastes, and mixed (hazardous and radioactive) low-level waste. For most of these categories, current and projected inventories are given through the year 2020, and the radioactivity and thermal power are calculated based on reported or estimated isotopic compositions. In addition, characteristics and current inventories are reported for miscellaneous radioactive materials that may require geologic disposal. 22 refs., 48 figs., 109 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/RW
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6162195
• Report Number(s): DOE/RW-0006-Rev.6; ON: TI91004922
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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052000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Management
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DECOMMISSIONING
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
INVENTORIES
ISOTOPE RATIO
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MILL TAILINGS
NUCLEAR FUELS
PLANNING
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR MATERIALS
SOLID WASTES
SOURCE TERMS
SPENT FUELS
TAILINGS
WASTE FORMS
WASTES