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Title: Environmental assessment for the construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Waste Segregation Facility at the Savannah River Site

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/576060· OSTI ID:576060

This Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared by the Department of Energy (DOE) to assess the potential environmental impacts associated with the construction, operation and decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of the Waste Segregation Facility (WSF) for the sorting, shredding, and compaction of low-level radioactive waste (LLW) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) located near Aiken, South Carolina. The LLW to be processed consists of two waste streams: legacy waste which is currently stored in E-Area Vaults of SRS and new waste generated from continuing operations. The proposed action is to construct, operate, and D&D a facility to process low-activity job-control and equipment waste for volume reduction. The LLW would be processed to make more efficient use of low-level waste disposal capacity (E-Area Vaults) or to meet the waste acceptance criteria for treatment at the Consolidated Incineration Facility (CIF) at SRS.

Research Organization:
USDOE Savannah River Operations Office, Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
576060
Report Number(s):
DOE/EA-1229; ON: DE98004077; NC: NONE; TRN: 98:004599
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jan 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English