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Appendix A2: DOE's Response to the Interim Report
Appendix A2: DOE's Response to the Interim Report
Pages 109-122
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Appendix A2 DOE' s Response to the Interim Report 109
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We are working closely with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to minimize the impact of the 5°/O hydrogen limit, and to reduce or eliminate unnecessary repackaging of waste. TRANSCOM has been completely revised to include requested updates and to incorporate specific WIPP requirements.
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has undertaken a project to carry out the recommended assessment, as part of CEMRC's ongoing WIPP Environment Monitoring project. Although analyses of certain naturally occurring radioactive materials in hydrocarbon and scale matrices are somewhat standardized, the sensitivity of the standard methods wall likely not be acceptable for at least a portion of the matrices targeted, resulting in the need for method enhancement research.
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DOE has developed and begun the implementation of a strategy to systematically improve the Waste Analysis Plan by reducing the frequency of waste characterization and implementing methods that make characterization simpler, less expensive and, above all, safer. 113 On August 8, 2000, the New Mexico Environment Department approved two packages of Class 2 modifications to the WIPP's Hazardous Waste Facility Penmit.
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The Permit modification requesting authorization for remote handled waste disposal at WIPP (to be submitted in December 2000) presents a performance based waste analysis plan that emphasizes the use of nonintrusive characterization techniques and eliminates the need for headspace gas sampling and analysis, solids sampling and analysis, VE, and other confirmatory measurements.
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Recommendation: "DOE should derive a more realistic radiolytic gas generation mode! validate it through conf~r~nato~y testing, use the results to recalculate gas generation limits, and seek regulatory approval to implement these limits." Response: DOE agrees with this recommendation An application for Revision 19 of the TRUPACT-H Safety Analysis Report was submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Apn!
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prohibition against shipping containers of flammable gas and radioactive material on the same vehicle if they could co-mingle would have to be addressed. Path Forward: The following steps grill be pursued to respond to this recommendation: Perform a safety analysis to determine whether WIPP could unload drums of waste that contained flammable gas.
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This only requires a single measurement that call be made in real-time instead of a lengthy gas generation rate test that requires measuring the rate of change of hydrogen gas over several hours or days. Path Forward: The following steps wall be pursued to respond to this recommendation: Alternative technical recommendations such as inert gas or hydrogen getters will be considered and a report prepared.
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Path Forward: The following steps wall be pursued to respond to this recommendation: . Determine the incremental inventory of TRU waste that could benefit from rail shipment (assuming the current application for Revision 19 to the TRUPACT-II Safety Analysis Report is approved)
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These include: Object F/X GIS mapping software and engine, QTRACS satellite positional and two-way communications software, Oracle Relational DBMS 8l, Oracle Report and Oracle Forms 61. The TRANSCOM Communications Center will have u~tothe-minute satellite weather service available.
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· DOE/AL Operations configuration: in process. Weather and Qtracs servers being installed, firewall server built and awaiting software installation, Operations Center fully staffed.
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Response: The information that needs to be gathered and analyzed must come from the state, tribal, and local governments. According to preliminary telephone calls to the Western Governors' Association and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, there is not a national or state system that currently tracks the information that the Committee recommends the DOE collect and analyze.
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