Radioactive Tank Waste Remediation Focus Area. Technology summary

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/90180· OSTI ID:90180

In February 1991, DOE`s Office of Technology Development created the Underground Storage Tank Integrated Demonstration (UST-ID), to develop technologies for tank remediation. Tank remediation across the DOE Complex has been driven by Federal Facility Compliance Agreements with individual sites. In 1994, the DOE Office of Environmental Management created the High Level Waste Tank Remediation Focus Area (TFA; of which UST-ID is now a part) to better integrate and coordinate tank waste remediation technology development efforts. The mission of both organizations is the same: to focus the development, testing, and evaluation of remediation technologies within a system architecture to characterize, retrieve, treat, concentrate, and dispose of radioactive waste stored in USTs at DOE facilities. The ultimate goal is to provide safe and cost-effective solutions that are acceptable to both the public and regulators. The TFA has focused on four DOE locations: the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) near Idaho Falls, Idaho, the Oak Ridge Reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina.

• Research Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 90180
• Report Number(s): DOE/EM--0255; ON: DE95016251; NC: NONE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
COMPILED DATA
HANFORD RESERVATION
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
OAK RIDGE RESERVATION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
REMEDIAL ACTION
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
STORAGE FACILITIES
TANKS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT