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Title: Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) management at the Nevada Test Site (NTS)

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OSTI ID:303979
 [1]; ; ;  [2]
  1. Bechtel Nevada, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (United States)
  2. Dept. of Energy, Las Vegas, NV (United States). Nevada Operations Office

In 1978, the Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV), established a managed LLW disposal project at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Two, sites which were already accepting limited amounts of on-site generated waste for disposal and off-site generated Transuranic Waste for interim storage, were selected to house the disposal facilities. In those early days, these sites, located about 15 miles apart, afforded the DOE/NV the opportunity to use at least two technologies to manage its waste cost effectively. The Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (RWMS) uses engineered shallow-land burial cells to dispose packaged waste while the Area 3 RWMS uses subsidence craters formed from underground testing of nuclear weapons for the disposal of packaged and unpackaged bulk waste. The paper describes the technical attributes of both Area 5 and Area 3 facilities, the acceptance process, the disposal processes, and present and future capacities of both sites.

Research Organization:
Bechtel Nevada, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
303979
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV-520; CONF-981121-; ON: DE99001385; NC: NONE; TRN: 99:003103
Resource Relation:
Conference: 19. U.S. Department of Energy low-level radioactive waste management conference, Salt Lake City, UT (United States), 10-12 Nov 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English