Integrated Data Base for 1992: US spent fuel and radioactive waste inventories, projections, and characteristics

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6928689

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, 1991. These data 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 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 nuclear 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 2030, 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.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6928689
• Report Number(s): DOE/RW-0006-Rev.8; ORNL/M--2524; ON: TI93005041
• 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
CLEANING
DATA
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DECOMMISSIONING
DECONTAMINATION
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FORECASTING
FUELS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
INFORMATION
INVENTORIES
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MILL TAILINGS
MIXTURES
NUCLEAR FUELS
NUMERICAL DATA
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR MATERIALS
REMEDIAL ACTION
SOLID WASTES
SPENT FUELS
TAILINGS
WASTES