A facility design for repackaging ORNL CH-TRU legacy waste in Building 3525

Technical Report · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/82479· OSTI ID:82479

Huxford, T J; Cooper, Jr, R H; Davis, L E; Fuller, A B; Gabbard, W A; Smith, R B ^[1]; Guay, K P ^[2]; Smith, L C ^[3]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
2. S. M. Stroller Corp. (United States)
3. United Energy Services Corp. (United States)

For the last 25 years, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has conducted operations which have generated solid, contact-handled transuranic (CH-TRU) waste. At present the CH-TRU waste inventory at ORNL is about 3400 55-gal drums retrievably stored in RCRA-permitted, aboveground facilities. Of the 3400 drums, approximately 2600 drums will need to be repackaged. The current US Department of Energy (DOE) strategy for disposal of these drums is to transport them to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico which only accepts TRU waste that meets a very specific set of criteria documented in the WIPP-WAC (waste acceptance criteria). This report describes activities that were performed from January 1994 to May 1995 associated with the design and preparation of an existing facility for repackaging and certifying some or all of the CH-TRU drums at ORNL to meet the WIPP-WAC. For this study, the Irradiated Fuel Examination Laboratory (IFEL) in Building 3525 was selected as the reference facility for modification. These design activities were terminated in May 1995 as more attractive options for CH-TRU waste repackaging were considered to be available. As a result, this document serves as a final report of those design activities.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 82479
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM--13034; ON: DE95008645
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
42 ENGINEERING
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
CONTAINERS
IMAGES
MONITORING
ORNL
PACKAGING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
TESTING
WIPP