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Appendix D: List of Recommendations from The State of Development of Waste Forms for Mixed Wastes: U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management
Pages 58-61

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... This approach would include characterization of the waste and definition of the required performance of a proposed treatment technology, based on EM's needs, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations.
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From page 59...
... This strategy should consider the waste form as a part of an overall mixed waste management system that includes: compatibility of waste form with transportation and disposal options, trade-offs between risks to personnel associated with additional waste characterization and additional costs of a more robust treatment and stabilization system, and trade-offs between the increased number of disposal options for a very stable waste form and the lower costs but reduced disposal options for less stable waste forms. The MWFA should demonstrate new treatment technologies on at least the pilot plant scale using real wastes or realistic surrogates before the technology is designated as ready for deployment.
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... , DOE, and the scientific community on waste form testing methods that will be generally acceptable for providing at least a qualitative evaluation of long-term waste form performance in disposal environments. OST should support efforts to obtain data that will allow a more realistic inclusion of waste forms in PA models, including intrusion scenarios.
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... APPENDIX D 61 deploying technologies that are later judged to be inadequate due to unanticipated regulatory requirements.
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  • mixed waste
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  • intrusion scenarios
  • pilot plant
  • technology coordinating
  • site selection

  • form testing
  • technology deficiencies
  • waste management
  • disposal environments
  • include characterization

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  • realistic surrogates
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  • support programs
  • fundamental understanding

  • engineered barriers
  • address technology
  • define acceptable
  • reduced disposal
  • required performance


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