Final Review of the Study on Supplemental Treatment Approaches of Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Review #4 (2020) / Chapter Skim
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3 Themes of the Comments Received During the Comment Period
3 Themes of the Comments Received During the Comment Period
Pages 21-25
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(One individual noted that he is sending suggested form letter text provided by Hanford Challenge, which according to its website is "a nonprofit watchdog and advocacy organization based in Seattle.") Hanford 21
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TRIBAL MEMBERS CALL FOR CARE OF THE LAND FOR ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS During the October 31, 2019, public meeting, representatives from the Yakama Nation and the Wanapum tribe spoke of the responsibility to take care of this land for their children and grandchildren, pointing out that cultural uses of this land have "existed from time immemorial." To meet this responsibility, they are opposed to leaving any waste on the Hanford site. In particular, the written comments from the Yakama Nation specifically cite the adverse impact on their rights under the Treaty of 1855, under which they ceded more than 15 million acres to the United States but reserved their rights to access "accustomed places," (see Appendix E, p.
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ADVANCED GLASS WASTE FORMS TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE SLAW TREATMENT During the public meeting of October 31, 2019, and in written comments, research and development of advanced glass waste forms were discussed. In particular, Albert Kruger, a glass scientist at DOE, described his research on advanced glass waste forms and indicated that such glass formulations might result in avoiding the necessity for a SLAW treatment facility or lessening such necessity if the waste loading in 23
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raise concern that the FFRDC was too limited in its analysis of the treatment approaches it considered for its final draft report. As mentioned previously, these three approaches are vitrification using Joule-heated melters, grout, and fluidized bed steam reforming.
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107) Furthermore, they point out the need for a more accurate inventory of RCRA tank wastes and that the current operating assumption is that all of the tanks contain all of the hazardous materials under RCRA, thus substantially increasing the costs for clean-up and the need to understand the impact of RCRA tank closure requirements on SLAW volume.
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