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Appendix A: Background Information
Appendix A: Background Information
Pages 31-36
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For example, drilling for hydrocarbon resources in formations underlying WIPP is currently practiced in the Delaware Basin on land surrounding the WIPP site; therefore, stylized "human intrusion" scenarios in which future boreholes are drilled through WIPP have been analyzed in the performance assessment moclel. Using this performance assessment, the U.S.
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These activities are conducted under the auspices of the National TRU Program administered by the DOE CarIsbad Area Office. DOE sites sending waste to WIPP must meet the waste characterization and transportation specifications that are contained in the WIPP waste acceptance criteria.
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Most of the TRU waste is heterogeneous in nature and requires no further characterization beyond acceptable knowledge to satisfy the regulatory requirements of RCRA. For homogeneous waste, a fraction of the waste containers (e.g., 55-gallon drums or standard waste boxes)
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be no significant chemical, galvanic, or other reaction among the packaging components, among package contents, or between the packaging components and the package contents, including possible reaction resulting from in leakage of water, to the maximum credible extent. Account must be taken of the behavior of materials under irracliation." DOE has proposed the headspace gas sampling procedure in its application to the USNRC for a licensing certificate on the transportation package (named the TRansUranic PACkage Transporter, or TRUPACTIl)
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At Los Alamos National Laboratory in ~ 998-1999, gas generation restrictions resulted in the repackaging of 36 drums of plutonium-238 waste from the waste stream "TA-55-43" into approximately 120 drums that were placed inside standard waste boxes.4 The output of the characterization program is a set of characterization data for each waste container. If the characterization information is within acceptable limits as determined by the waste acceptance criteria and quality assurance program plan (or waste analysis plan)
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are unloaded and delivered to an underground elevator for emplacement into rooms excavated in the subsurface salt bed. 36 Interim Report
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