Annual Transuranic Waste Inventory Report - 2008 (Rev. 0)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) opened on March 26, 1999, becoming the nation’s first deep geologic repository for the permanent disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) waste. TRU waste generation has occurred at 39 sites across the country (seven large-quantity and 32 small-quantity sites). Sixteen of these sites (one large site and 15 small quantity sites) have emplaced their waste at WIPP, found other disposition pathways for the waste, or have transferred the waste to other sites for further disposition (LANL-CO, 2007a). Babcock and Wilcox (BL) [this site did not pursue a defense determination and was considered deinventoried], United States Army Materiel Command (USAMC), Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory – Nuclear Fuels Service (KAPL-NFS), and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have been de-inventoried once, but have identified additional waste after the originally identified waste was removed from the site. TRU waste is currently retrievably stored at 23 sites throughout the DOE complex. As of December 31, 2007, there have been 6340 shipments of TRU waste to WIPP for emplacement since WIPP’s opening (DOE 2008a). Since 1994, DOE complex-wide TRU waste inventory information has been collected, analyzed, and published for WIPP certification urposes in several reports. The WIPP Transuranic Waste Baseline Inventory Report (WTWBIR), Revision 0, published in June 1994 (DOE 1994), was the first attempt made by the DOE complex to report all of its TRU waste at the waste-stream level. The TRU waste data reported in Revision 0 were considered preliminary until the TRU waste sites completed quality checks of the data. Data changes resulting from the quality checks were contained in the WTWBIR, Revision 1 (DOE 1995a). The Transuranic Waste Baseline Inventory Report (TWBIR), Revisions 2 and 3, included WIPP and potential TRU waste streams, along with waste stream characteristic information. Data from Revisions 2 and 3 provided the TRU waste inventory that Sandia National Laboratories–Carlsbad Programs Group (SNL-CPG) used to perform the necessary modeling calculations for the performance assessment (PA) for the initial certification of the WIPP (Compliance Certification Application [CCA]).
- Research Organization:
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Carlsbad, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO), NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC29-01AL66444
- OSTI ID:
- 989395
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/TRU-2008-3425-Rev.0; DOE/TRU-08-3425
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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