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Energy systems evaluation of potential for incidents having health or safety impact

Description: The paper discusses the results of safety surveys of Martin Marietta Energy Systems - operated nuclear facilities. The purpose was to identify potential incidents that could cause large numbers of casualties, evaluate existing prevention/response actions, and identify possible improvements. The survey findings indicate the potential for an accident with consequences similar to those at Bhopal, India, is essentially non-existent. (ACR)
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Speas, I.G.
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Radon suppression in storage silos at the United States Department of Energy Feed Material Production Center, Fernald, Ohio

Description: Two silos at the Department of Energy Feed Material Production Facility in Fernald, Ohio, contain an estimated 8800 metric tons of high-grade pitchblende ore residue solids, which contain approximately 3,300 curies (Ci) of radium and 1810 Ci of thorium. These silos are the subject of an on-going CERCLA RI/F Program. Fugitive radon emissions from the silos exceed EPA limits. In addition, structural analyses have revealed that the silos have little credible remaining design life. While pursuing f… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Land, R.R. (Bechtel National, Inc. (USA)); Biancheria, A. (Westinghouse Materials Co., Fernald, OH (USA)) & Craig, J.R. (USDOE, Washington, DC (USA))
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Data evaluation techniques used for groundwater quality assessment at the Feed Materials Production Center

Description: The Feed Materials Production Center has implemented a monitoring program which includes over 300 wells and piezometers to assess the impact of its operations on the ground water. Large volumes of monitoring data are being collected in support of a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study, a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ground water quality assessment program, and an underground storage tank investigation. This program aims to establish background or upgradient ground water consti… more
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Harmon, J.E. & Longmire, P.K.
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DOE's mixed waste inventory and waste generation rates

Description: This document contains the inventories (70,000 cubic meters) and generation rates (7,700 cubic meters/ year) of low-level mixed wastes for the U.S. DOE. The twelve sites with the most significant processing needs are Fernald, Hanford, K-25, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Padacuh Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Savannah River Site (SRS), and Y-12 plant. The largest invento… more
Date: November 1, 1992
Creator: Ross, W.A. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)); Borduin, L.C. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)) & Musgrave, B.C. (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States))
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DOE`s perspective: Reaching success by standing on a three legged stool

Description: Gridlock, inertia, conflict, outrage, bureaucracy, obstruction, media sensationalizing, courts, and politicians. These are the things that characterize any attempt to implement a public policy today. It is worse today than it has ever been because the middle has dropped out of public opinion. We have today no consensus of public values. At Fernald, we have come to recognize that in order to achieve any success we must first build a public consensus about what success will look like. We do this … more
Date: January 31, 1995
Creator: Hamric, J. P. & Morgan, K. L.
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Soils and groundwater cleanup at Fernald: A status update on Operable Unit No. 5

Description: This report discusses a status update on the cleanup operations at FERNALD. Discussed is the regulatory framework for FERNALD cleanup; overview of the FERNALD site; description of operable unit 5;remedial investigation; pattern of contamination; feasibility studies; and tangible progress to date.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Yerace, P. J.; Bomberger, A. K. & Brettschneider, D. J.
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Innovative systems for mixed waste retrieval and/or treatment in confined spaces

Description: Fernald established operations in 1951 and produced uranium and other metals for use at other DOE facilities. A part of the sitewide remediation effort is the removal, treatment, and disposal of the K-65 wastes from Silos 1 and 2. These silos contain radium-bearing residues from the processing of pitchblende ore. An Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis was prepared to evaluate the removal action alternatives using the preliminary characterization data and select a preferred alternative. The sel… more
Date: March 1, 1993
Creator: Fekete, L. J. & Ghusn, A. E.
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Decontamination and dismantlement of Plant 7 at Fernald

Description: Decontamination and dismantlement (D&D) tasks have been successfully completed on Plant 7 at the Fernald Environmental Management Project. The seven story facility was radiologically, chemically, and biologically contaminated. The work involved the D&D work beginning with safe shutdown and gross decontamination, and ended with removal of the structural steel. A series of lessons learned were gained which include use of explosives, bidding tactics, safe shutdown, building decontamination and loc… more
Date: November 7, 1994
Creator: Albertin, M.; Borgman, T. & Zebick, B.
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Integrated planning: A baseline development perspective

Description: The FEMP Baseline establishes the basis for integrating environmental activity technical requirements with their cost and schedule elements. The result is a path forward to successfully achieving the FERMCO mission. Specific to cost management, the FEMP Baseline has been incorporate into the FERMCO Project Control System (PCS) to provide a time-phased budget plan against which contractor performance is measured with an earned value management system. The result is the Performance Measurement Ba… more
Date: December 9, 1994
Creator: Clauss, L. & Chang, D.
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Development of subcontractor indirect cost and other direct cost at the DOE Fernald Site

Description: The Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation (FERMCO) took great strides in the development of cost estimates at Fernald. There have been many opportunities to improve on how the policies and procedures pertaining to cost estimates were to be implemented. As FERMCO took over the existing Fernald facility, the Project Controls Division began to format the estimating procedures and tools to do business at Fernald. The Estimating Department looked at the problems that pre-existed a… more
Date: November 18, 1994
Creator: Cossman, R. L.
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Public participation at Fernald: FERMCO`s evolving role

Description: In an effort to improve public involvement in the site restoration decision making process, the DOE has established site specific advisory boards, of which the Fernald Citizens Task Force is one. The Fernald Task Force is focused on making recommendations in four areas: (1) What should be the future use of the site? (2) Determinations of cleanup levels (how clean is clean?) (3) Where should the wastes be disposed of? (4) What should be the cleanup priorities? Because these questions are being a… more
Date: January 30, 1995
Creator: Williams, J. B.; Fellman, R. W. & Brettschneider, D. J.
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Distribution of uranium-bearing phases in soils from Fernald

Description: Electron beam techniques have been used to characterize uranium-contaminated soils and the Fernald Site, Ohio. Uranium particulates have been deposited on the soil through chemical spills and from the operation of an incinerator plant on the site. The major uranium phases have been identified by electron microscopy as uraninite, autunite, and uranium phosphite [U(PO{sub 3}){sub 4}]. Some of the uranium has undergone weathering resulting in the redistribution of uranium within the soil.
Date: December 31, 1993
Creator: Buck, E. C.; Brown, N. R. & Dietz, N. L.
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Fernald waste management and disposition

Description: Historically waste management within the Department of Energy complex has evolved around the operating principle of packaging waste generated and storing until a later date. In many cases wastes were delivered to onsite waste management organizations with little or no traceability to origin of generation. Sites then stored their waste for later disposition offsite or onsite burial. While the wastes were stored, sites incurred additional labor costs for maintaining, inspecting and repackaging co… more
Date: January 30, 1995
Creator: West, M. L.; Fisher, L. A.; Frost, M. L. & Rast, D. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rail transportation of Fernald remediation waste

Description: Remediation of the Department of Energy (DOE) Fernald site located north of Cincinnati will generate large quantities of low-level radwaste. This volume includes approximately 1,050,000 tons of material to be removed from eight waste pits comprising Operable Unit 1 (OU-1). The remedial alternative selected includes waste material excavation, drying and transportation by rail to a burial site in the arid west for disposal. Rail transportation was selected not only because rail transportation is … more
Date: January 24, 1995
Creator: Fellman, R. T.; Lojek, D. A.; Motl, G. P. & Weddendorf, W. K.
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An autonomous mobil robot to perform waste drum inspections

Description: A mobile robot is being developed by the Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) Robotics Group of Westinghouse Savannah River company (WSRC) to perform mandated inspections of waste drums stored in warehouse facilities. The system will reduce personnel exposure and create accurate, high quality documentation to ensure regulatory compliance. Development work is being coordinated among several DOE, academic and commercial entities in accordance with DOE`s technology transfer initiative. The prot… more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Peterson, K. D. & Ward, C. R.
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Technology development and applications at Fernald

Description: At the Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP) northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy and contractor Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation (FERMCO) are aggressively pursuing both the development and the application of improved, innovative technology to the environmental restoration task. Application of emerging technologies is particularly challenging in a regulatory environment that places pressure on operational managers to develop and meet tig… more
Date: February 1, 1995
Creator: Pettit, P. J.; Skriba, M. C. & Warner, R. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Probabilistic comparison of alternative characterization technologies at the Fernald Uranium-in-Soils Integrated Demonstration Project

Description: The performance of four alternative characterization technologies proposed for use in characterization of surficial uranium contamination in soil at the Incinerator and Drum Baling Areas at the Fernald Environmental Management Project in southwestern Ohio has been evaluated using a probabilistic, risk-based decision-analysis methodology. The basis of comparison is to minimize a computed total cost for environmental cleanup. This total-cost-based approach provides a framework for evaluating the … more
Date: December 31, 1993
Creator: Rautman, C. A.; McGraw, M. A.; Istok, J. D.; Sigda, J. M. & Kaplan, P. G.
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Supporting Soil Remediation at Fernald by Electron Beam Methods

Description: Electron beam techniques have been used to characterize uranium-contaminated soils at the Fernald Site, Ohio. The major uranium phases have been identified by analytical electron microscopy (AEM) as uranyl phosphate (autunite), uranium oxide (uraninite), and uranium phosphite [U(PO{sub 3}){sub 4}]. Luminescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopy incorrectly identified uranium oxide hydrate (schoepite) as the major phase in Fernald soils. The solubilities of schoepite and autunite are very differ… more
Date: February 1, 1994
Creator: Buck, E. C.; Brown, N. R.; Dietz, N. L. & Cunnane, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Transite Decontamination Dismantlement and Recycle/Disposal

Description: On February 3--4, 1993, a workshop was conducted to examine issues associated with the decontamination, dismantlement, and recycle/disposal of transite located at the US Department of Energy Fernald site near Cincinnati, OH. The Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP) is a Superfund Site currently undergoing remediation. A major objective of the workshop was to assess the state-of-the-art of transite remediation, and generate concepts that could be useful to the Fernald Environmental Re… more
Date: December 31, 1993
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Reductive dissolution approaches to removal of uranium from contaminated soils

Description: Traditional approaches to uranium recovery from ores have employed oxidation of U(IV) minerals to form the uranyl cation which is subsequently complexed by carbonate or maintained in solution by strong acids. Reductive approaches for uranium decontamination have been limited to removing soluble uranium from solutions by formation of U{sup 4+} which readily hydrolyses and precipitates. As part of the Uranium in Soils Integrated Demonstration, we have developed a reductive approach to solubilizat… more
Date: June 1, 1994
Creator: Brainard, J. R.; Iams, H. D.; Strietelmeier, B. A. & Del-Rio Garcia, M.
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Vitrification of mixed waste from uranium processing operations

Description: Three silos at the Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP) in Fernald, Ohio, contain residues from the processing of pitchblende ores. Silos 1 and 2, designated as K-65, contain the depleted ore, while Silo 3 contains calcined residue from processing solutions. Silos 1 and 2 also contain a bentonite clay cap that was added to the silos to reduce the radon emanation from the waste. Previously, the initial vitrification testing, conducted as a treatability study for the Remedial Investiga… more
Date: December 31, 1993
Creator: Janke, D. S. & Merrill, R. A.
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Developing public affairs counseling skills to support a public participation focus at Fernald

Description: To provide closer coordination between the Public Affairs Division and environmental restoration management and technical staff, the Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation (FERMCO) matrixed Public Affairs staffers as counselors to project teams within FERMCO. Close coordination between technical staff and public affairs staff is essential for effective public communication in a public participation, environmental risk communication environment. Two-way symmetrical communicatio… more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Hoopes, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Determining Uranium Speciation in Contaminated Soils by Molecular Spectroscopic Methods: Examples From the Uranium in Soils Integrated Demonstration

Description: The US Department of Energy`s former uranium production facility located at Fernald, OH (18 mi NW of Cincinnati) is the host site for an Integrated Demonstration for remediation of uranium-contaminated soils. A wide variety of source terms for uranium contamination have been identified reflecting the diversity of operations at the facility. Most of the uranium contamination is contained in the top {approximately}1/2 m of soil, but uranium has been found in perched waters indicating substantial … more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Allen, P. G.; Berg, J. M.; Chisholm-Brause, C. J.; Conradson, S. D.; Donohoe, R. J.; Morris, D. E. et al.
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Major issues associated with DOE commercial recycling initiatives

Description: Major initiatives are underway within DOE to recycle large volumes of scrap material generated during cleanup of the DOE Weapons Complex. These recycling initiatives are driven not only by the desire to conserve natural resources, but also by the recognition that shallow level burial is not a politically acceptable option. The Fernald facility is in the vanguard of a number of major DOE recycling efforts. These early efforts have brought issues to light that can have a major impact on the abili… more
Date: July 27, 1994
Creator: Motl, G. P.; Burns, D. D. & Rast, D. M.
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