Offsite hazardous waste shipment data collection
Past practices at the US Department of Energy (DOE) sites for offsite release of hazardous waste are being reviewed to determine if radioactively contaminated hazardous wastes were released to commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. Records indicating the presence of radioactivity in waste shipped to and treated at a commercial incineration facility led to a ban on offsite hazardous waste shipments and investigation of past practices for offsite release of hazardous waste from the DOE sites. Hazardous waste shipment data collected from some DOE sites revealed contaminated waste shipments were sent to commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities during the 1980 through 1991 reporting period. These waste shipments were determined to be radioactive based on current standards. To follow up on past shipments of waste from all DOE facilities, a data request was sent to the DOE field sites for completion. The data request required the sites to categorize the past waste shipments according to current standards as clean, likely clean, likely radioactive, or known radioactive.
- Research Organization:
- EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-76ID01570
- OSTI ID:
- 6814190
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/LLW-164; ON: DE93007229
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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