A Strategic Vision for Department of Energy Environmental Quality Research and Development (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Descriptions of DOE's Environmental Quality Technical Categories
Appendix D: Descriptions of DOE's Environmental Quality Technical Categories
Pages 143-148
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Large quantities of HLW were generated during production of nuclear weapons and reprocessing of defense production reactor fuels. There are 280 large radioactive waste storage tanks and more than 63 smaller underground storage tanks across the DOE complex that contain more than 340,000 cubic meters (90 million gallons)
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Considerable amounts of TRU waste also contain hazardous constituents subject to regulation under the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or the Toxic Substances Control Act.
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This decrease resulted in nuclear weapons components being returned to DOE and classified as surplus materials (approximately 200 metric tons of U.S. weapons-usable fissile materials, which includes highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are classified as surplus materials)
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Commercial spent fuel consists of fuel assemblies discharged from electricity-generating nuclear reactors and is located at 72 nuclear power plant sites and one independent storage site in 33 states. The total inventory of spent fuel at the end of 1998 was estimated to be about 38,000 MTHM, and the expected inventory in 2040 is projected to be about 85,000 MTHM.
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Deactivation and Decommissioning of Contaminated Facilities Many of the more than 20,000 DOE facilities that were used to support nuclear weapons production and other activities are contaminated with radioactive materials, hazardous chemicals, asbestos, and lead. To reduce the potential for release of radioactive and hazardous materials to the environment, the risk of industrial safety accidents, and the costs of monitoring and maintaining these facilities, DOE plans to deactivate and decommission (D&D)
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recommended that a new category of R&D activities be defined to minimize the risk of newly generated DOE radioactive and hazardous waste. DOE currently has no complex-wide R&D program to minimize the generation of new wastes, although site specific work is in progress to address local waste management programs (DOE, 2000g)
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