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... PROPOSED TREATMENT PLAN AND CONGRESSIONAL MANDATE TO ANALYZE AND REVIEW THE ANALYSIS OF SUPPLEMENTAL TREATMENT APPROACHES DOE-EM has proposed to retrieve the waste from the tanks to produce two waste streams, by removing several specific radionuclides that contain most of the radioactivity from the liquids and dissolved salt cake in the tanks, yielding liquid LAW, and then combining the removed radionuclides with the remaining solids to yield high-level waste (HLW)
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... At this final stage of the study, neither DOE nor the FFRDC has identified additional alternative primary approaches, though the FFRDC has identified some variants of the primary approaches. As discussed in the FFRDC's final draft report, dated April 5, 2019, as well as the final report, dated October 18, 2019, the FFRDC team narrowed its consideration of alternatives to five SLAW treatment cases: (1)
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... The FFRDC team's task is to provide DOE and Congress with facts and analyses regarding treatment approaches, but not a recommendation concerning a preferred alternative. Likewise, the committee, as peer reviewer, does not offer or imply a recommendation among alternative approaches in its reviews.
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... . Throughout the study, in addition to comments received during the public meetings, the National Academies has received comments submitted via e-mail and mail as well as most recently during the congressionally mandated comment period, via a Web survey form.
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... TABLE 1-1 List of the FFRDC's Presentations, Given on October 31, 2019, in Richland, Washington Presentation No. Title -- Presenter 1 FFRDC Overview -- Final Report on Analysis of Supplemental Treatment Approaches for Low Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- Bill Bates 2 Evaluation of Supplemental Low-Activity Waste Treatment Options: Performance Evaluation and Other Options -- Thomas Brouns 3 Key Updates, Conclusions, & Areas for Further Study -- Michael Stone TABLE 1-2 Study Schedule Timing Activity December 12-13, 2017 The committee's first information-gathering meeting convened in Washington, DC.
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... February-March 2020 Final briefings to Congress, DOE, Washington State, and other stakeholders. To perform the peer review task, the National Academies formed a committee composed of 13 experts and one technical adviser whose expertise spans the issues relevant for reviewing the FFRDC's analysis, including risk assessments, cost estimation, cost-benefit analysis, waste processing, supplemental treatment approaches, legal and regulatory requirements, and large scale nuclear construction projects.
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