Impact of dynamic certification requirements on the Nuclear Materials Technology Division's transuranic waste management program
- James J.
- Andrew J.
The issuance of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's (WIPP) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit in August of 2000, specifically the attachment I3 Waste Analysis Plan (WAP),had a profound impact upon transuranic (TRU) waste certification at Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Plutonium Facility. Program certification was lost until Laboratory internal program documents could be amended to meet the new WAP requirements, waste management personnel could be retrained to incorporate the changes into waste operations and the entire program successfully pass subsequent Carlsbad Field Ofice (CBFO) audit. This action resulted in the suspension of transuranic waste shipments from LANL to WIPP. In addition the changes unnecessarily increased the complexity of TRU waste program activities in waste handling.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 975932
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-02-0091; LA-UR-02-91; TRN: US1006821
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: "Submitted to: Spectrum 2002 Conference on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management, August 4-8, 2002, Reno, Nevada"
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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