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Title: PUREX Storage Tunnels dangerous waste permit application

Abstract

The Hanford Site is operated by the US Department of Energy-Richland Operations Office. The PUREX Storage Tunnels are a storage unit located on the Hanford Site. The unit consists of two earth-covered railroad tunnels that are used for storage of process equipment (some containing dangerous waste) removed from the PUREX Plant. Radioactively contaminated equipment is loaded on railroad cars and remotely transferred into the tunnels for long-term storage. Westinghouse Hanford Company is a major contractor to the US Department of Energy-Richland Operations Office and serves as a co-operator of the PUREX Storage Tunnels, the waste management unit addressed by this permit application. The PUREX Storage Tunnels Dangerous Waste Permit Application (Revision O) consists of both a Part A and Part B permit application and is based on information available as of August 31, 1990. An explanation of the Part A revision submitted with this document is provided at the beginning of the Part A section. In this Part A revision, the PUREX Storage Tunnels have been redesignated as a miscellaneous unit. The Part B consists of 15 chapters addressing the organization and content of the Part B checklist prepared by the Washington State Department of Ecology.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Richland Operations Office, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/NE
OSTI Identifier:
6553689
Report Number(s):
DOE/RL-90-24-Vol.1
ON: DE91000563
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-87RL10930
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; HANFORD RESERVATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PERMIT APPLICATIONS; CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT; GROUND WATER; MAPS; MONITORING; PERSONNEL; PUREX PROCESS; STORAGE FACILITIES; TRAINING; TUNNELS; ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; REPROCESSING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; STORAGE; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES; WATER; 052002* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

Citation Formats

. PUREX Storage Tunnels dangerous waste permit application. United States: N. p., 1990. Web. doi:10.2172/6553689.
. PUREX Storage Tunnels dangerous waste permit application. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6553689
. 1990. "PUREX Storage Tunnels dangerous waste permit application". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6553689. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6553689.
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year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990},
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