Conceptual Safety Design Report for the Remote Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/974756· OSTI ID:974756

Christensen, Boyd D

A new onsite, remote-handled LLW disposal facility has been identified as the highest ranked alternative for providing continued, uninterrupted remote-handled LLW disposal for remote-handled LLW from the Idaho National Laboratory and for spent nuclear fuel processing activities at the Naval Reactors Facility. Historically, this type of waste has been disposed of at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex. Disposal of remote-handled LLW in concrete disposal vaults at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex will continue until the facility is full or until it must be closed in preparation for final remediation of the Subsurface Disposal Area (approximately at the end of Fiscal Year 2017). This conceptual safety design report supports the design of a proposed onsite remote-handled LLW disposal facility by providing an initial nuclear facility hazard categorization, by identifying potential hazards for processes associated with onsite handling and disposal of remote-handled LLW, by evaluating consequences of postulated accidents, and by discussing the need for safety features that will become part of the facility design.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 974756
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT-09-17427
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACCIDENTS
Activated Metals
CONCRETES
DESIGN
Low-level Waste
NUCLEAR FUELS
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RH-LLW
Remote Handled
SAFETY
SAFETY REPORTS
SHIP PROPULSION REACTORS
Spent Resins
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTES
Waste Storage