TRU waste certification and TRUPACT-2 payload verification

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5881243

Hunter, E K ^[1]; Johnson, J E ^[2]

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1. USDOE Albuquerque Operations Office, Carlsbad, NM (USA). Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Project Office
2. Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM (USA). Waste Isolation Div.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) established a policy that requires each waste shipper to verify that all waste shipments meet the requirements of the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) prior to being shipped. This verification provides assurance that transuranic (TRU) wastes meet the criteria while still retained in a facility where discrepancies can be immediately corrected. Each Department of Energy (DOE) TRU waste facility planning to ship waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is required to develop and implement a specific program including Quality Assurance (QA) provisions to verify that waste is in full compliance with WIPP's WAC. This program is audited by a composite DOE and contractor audit team prior to granting the facility permission to certify waste. During interaction with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on payload verification for shipping in TRUPACT-II, a similar system was established by DOE. The TRUPACT-II Safety Analysis Report (SAR) contains the technical requirements and physical and chemical limits that payloads must meet (like the WAC). All shippers must plan and implement a payload control program including independent QA provisions. A similar composite audit team will conduct preshipment audits, frequent subsequent audits, and operations inspections to verify that all TRU waste shipments in TRUPACT-II meet the requirements of the Certificate of Compliance issued by the NRC which invokes the SAR requirements. 1 fig.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM (USA). Waste Isolation Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-86AL31950
• OSTI ID: 5881243
• Report Number(s): CONF-900210-61; ON: DE91011484
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste management 90: working towards a cleaner environment: waste processing, transportation, storage and disposal, technical programs and public education, Tucson, AZ (USA), 25 Feb - 1 Mar 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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