Siting study for a consolidated waste capability at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
Decision analysis was used to rank alternative sites for a new Consolidated Waste Capability (CWC) to replace current hazardous solid waste operations (hazardous/chemical, mixed lowlevel, transuranic, and low-level waste) at Los Alamos National Laboratory's TA-54 Area G. An original list of 21 site alternatives was pre-screened to ten sites that were assessed using the analytical hierarchy process with five top-level criteria and fifteen sub-criteria. Three passes of the analysis were required to assess different site scenarios: 1) a fully consolidated CWC with both transfer/storage and LL W disposal in one location (45 acre minimum), 2) CWC transfer/storage only (12 acre minimum), and 3) LLW disposal only (33 acre minimum). The top site choice for all three options is TA-63/52/46; the second choice is TA-18/36. TA-54 East, Zone 4 also deserves consideration as a LLW disposal site.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1049964
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-11-00580; LA-UR-11-580
TRN: US1204508
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2011 ; February 27, 2011 ; Phoenix, Az
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; LANL; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES
Citation Formats
Booth, Steven Richard. Siting study for a consolidated waste capability at Los Alamos National Laboratory. United States: N. p., 2011.
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Booth, Steven Richard. Siting study for a consolidated waste capability at Los Alamos National Laboratory. United States.
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"Siting study for a consolidated waste capability at Los Alamos National Laboratory". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1049964.
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abstractNote = {Decision analysis was used to rank alternative sites for a new Consolidated Waste Capability (CWC) to replace current hazardous solid waste operations (hazardous/chemical, mixed lowlevel, transuranic, and low-level waste) at Los Alamos National Laboratory's TA-54 Area G. An original list of 21 site alternatives was pre-screened to ten sites that were assessed using the analytical hierarchy process with five top-level criteria and fifteen sub-criteria. Three passes of the analysis were required to assess different site scenarios: 1) a fully consolidated CWC with both transfer/storage and LL W disposal in one location (45 acre minimum), 2) CWC transfer/storage only (12 acre minimum), and 3) LLW disposal only (33 acre minimum). The top site choice for all three options is TA-63/52/46; the second choice is TA-18/36. TA-54 East, Zone 4 also deserves consideration as a LLW disposal site.},
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