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First-year evaluation of a nondestructive assay system for the examination of ORNL TRU waste

Description: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected as the demonstration site for a new transuranic neutron assay system (NAS) developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition, in order to meet specific ORNL program objectives, an upgraded segmented gamma-ray drum scanner has been integrated into the nondestructive assay (NDA) system to serve as a radioisotope identifier and as a quantitative assay backup to the NAS. A verification study, wherein selected waste drums will be emptied… more
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Schultz, F. J.; Haff, K. W.; Coffey, D. E.; Norris, L. B.; Caldwell, J. T.; Close, D. A. et al.
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Engineering evaluation of alternatives for the disposition of Niagara Falls Storage Site, its residues and wastes

Description: The final disposition scenarios selected by DOE for assessment in this document are consistent with those stated in the Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS) (DOE, 1983d) and the modifications to the alternatives resulting from the public scoping process. The scenarios are: take no action beyond interim remedial measures other than maintenance and surveillance of the NFSS; retain and manage the NFSS as a long-term waste man… more
Date: January 1, 1984
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Assessment of degradation concerns for spent fuel, high-level wastes, and transuranic wastes in monitored retrievalbe storage

Description: It has been concluded that there are no significant degradation mechanisms that could prevent the design, construction, and safe operation of monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facilities. However, there are some long-term degradation mechanisms that could affect the ability to maintain or readily retrieve spent fuel (SF), high-level wastes (HLW), and transuranic wastes (TRUW) several decades after emplacement. Although catastrophic failures are not anticipated, long-term degradation mechanism… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Guenther, R. J.; Gilbert, E. R.; Slate, S. C.; Partain, W. L.; Divine, J. R. & Kreid, D. K.
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Certification document for newly generated contact-handled transuranic waste

Description: The US Department of Energy has requested that all national laboratories handling defense waste develop and augment a program whereby all newly generated contact-handled transuranic (TRU) waste be contained, stored, and then shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in accordance with the requirements set forth in WIPP-DOE-114. The program described in this report delineates how Oak Ridge National Laboratory intends to comply with these requirements and lists the procedures used by each… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Box, W.D. & Setaro, J.
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Prevention of stress-corrosion cracking in nuclear waste storage tanks

Description: Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) has occurred in the early versions of carbon steel primaries of nuclear waste tanks at the Savannah River Plant. (Secondary containment was provided by a vessel surrounding the lower portion of the primary tank.) Evaporated alkaline nitrate wastes in the form of crystallized salts are being dissolved from some of these tanks for transfer to new tanks of a different design. To prevent the SCC sequence from occurring during salt dissolution, the levels of inhibitor… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Ondrejcin, R S
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Remote-handled/special case TRU waste characterization summary

Description: TRU wastes are those (other than high level waste) contaminated with specified quantities of certain alpha-emitting radionuclides of long half-life and high specific radiotoxicity. TRU waste is defined as /sup 226/Ra isotopic sources and those other materials that, without regard to source or form, are contaminated with transuranic elements with half-lives greater than 20 years, and have TRU alpha contamination greater than 100 nCi/g. RH TRU waste has high beta and gamma radiation levels, up to… more
Date: March 30, 1984
Creator: Detamore, J.A.
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Environmental monitoring report, 1980, 1981, 1982 for the former Middlesex Sampling Plant and Middlesex Municipal Landfill Sites

Description: During periods of remedial action activities conducted in 1980 and 1981 at designated sites in the Borough of Middlesex, New Jersey, air, water, and sediments were sampled and analyzed to verify the adequacy of contamination control and compliance with applicable standards. Analytical results show that remedial action activities at the Middlesex Sampling Plant (MSP) and vicinity properties were conducted, with few exceptions, within applicable standards. During 1982, a surveillance monitoring p… more
Date: October 1, 1984
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Compact approach to monitored retrievable storage of spent fuel

Description: Recent federal waste-management legislation has raised national interest in monitored retrievable storage (MRS) of unprocessed spent fuel from civilian nuclear power plants. We have reviewed the current MRS design approaches, and we have examined an alternative concept that is extremely compact in terms of total land use. This approach may offer substantial advantages in the areas of monitoring and in safeguards against theft, as well as in reducing the chances of groundwater contamination. Tot… more
Date: September 1, 1984
Creator: Muir, D.W.
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Complexant stability investigation

Description: The question of long-term safety of the large quantities of ferrocyanide precipitates placed in some waste tanks over a period of several years at the Hanford Plant has been raised. This report reviews the existing information on these precipitates and on the potential reactions that might occur between these solids and nitrate salts, and makes recommendations for a study that would better establish the chemistry involved, determine the precise location of the cyanide precipitates, and thus per… more
Date: November 1, 1984
Creator: Burger, L.L.
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Waste Management Program. Technical progress report, Aporil-June 1983

Description: This quarterly report provides current information on operations and development programs for the management of radioactive wastes from operation of the Savannah River Plant. The studies on environmental and safety assessments, process and equipment development, TRU waste, and low-level waste are a part of the Long-Term Waste Management Technology Program. The following studies are reported for the SR Interim Waste Operations Program: surveillance and maintenance, waste concentration, low-level… more
Date: February 1, 1984
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Niagara Falls Storage Site, Lewiston, New York: geologic report

Description: This report is one of a series of engineering and environmental reports planned for the US Department of Energy's properties at Niagara Falls, New York. It describes the essential geologic features of the Niagara Falls Storage Site. It is not intended to be a definitive statement of the engineering methods and designs required to obtain desired performance features for any permanent waste disposal at the site. Results are presented of a geological investigation that consisted of two phases. Pha… more
Date: June 1, 1984
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Evaluation of concepts for monitored retrievable storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste

Description: The primary mission selected by DOE for the monitored retrieval storage (MRS) system is to provide an alternative means of storage in the event that the repository program is delayed. The MRS concepts considered were the eight concepts included in the MRS Research and Development Report to Congress (DOE 1983). These concepts are: metal cask (stationary and transportable); concrete cask (sealed storage cask); concrete cask-in-trench; field drywell; tunnel drywell; open cycle vault; closed cycle … more
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Triplett, M.B. & Smith, R.I.
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Foreign Programs for the Storage of Spent Nuclear Power Plant Fuels, High-Level Waste Canisters and Transuranic Wastes

Description: The various national programs for developing and applying technology for the interim storage of spent fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and TRU wastes are summarized. Primary emphasis of the report is on dry storage techniques for uranium dioxide fuels, but data are also provided concerning pool storage.
Date: April 1, 1984
Creator: Harmon, K. M. & Johnson, A. B., (Jr.)
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Cleanout of waste storage tanks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Description: In 1943, six storage tanks were built at the Clinton Laboratories (later to become Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)) to contain wastes generated by wartime research and development operations. During the following years, these tanks became an integral part of the ORNL waste system and accumulated approx. 1.5 x 10/sup 6/ L (400,000 gal) of sludge containing radioactive wastes. Recently, over a period of approx. 18 months, these tanks were sluiced, the radioactive sludge resuspended, and the … more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Weeren, H. O.; Lasher, L. C. & McDaniel, E. W.
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Geochemical information for sites contaminated with low-level radioactive wastes: I. Niagara Falls Storage Site

Description: The Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS) became radioactively contaminated as a result of wastes that were being stored from operations carried out to recover uranium from pitchblende ore in the 1940s and 1950s. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is considering various remedial action options for the NFSS. This report describes the results of geochemical investigations performed to help provide a quantitative evaluation of the effects of various options. NFSS soil and groundwater samples were chara… more
Date: November 1, 1984
Creator: Seeley, F. G. & Kelmers, A. D.
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Application of proving-ring technology to measure thermally induced displacements in large boreholes in rock

Description: A strain-gauged proving-ring transducer was designed and deployed to measure small diametral displacements in 0.61-m diameter boreholes in rock. The rock surrounding the boreholes was previously heated by storage of spent nuclear fuel assemblies and measurements during post-retrieval cooling of the rock were made. To accomplish this, a transducer was designed to measure displacements in the range of 10 to 100 {mu}m, to function in a time-varying temperature regime of 30{sup 0} to 60{sup 0}C at … more
Date: March 1, 1984
Creator: Patrick, W.C.; Reactor, N.L. & Butkovich, T.R.
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