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Current and Planned Low-Level Waste Disposal Capacity Report - Revision 1

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Summary of Report Sections
1.2 History and Current Status of the DOE Low-Level Waste Disposal Configuration
1.3 Radiological Assessments
1.4 Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
1.5 Data Sources for Projected Volume and Radiological Profile
1.6 Assumptions
2.0 VOLUMETRIC PROJECTIONS AND CAPACITY
2.1 Volumetric Capacity Analysis Methodology
2.2 Projected Volumetric Disposal Needs
2.2.1 Projections from Programs Other than Environmental Restoration
2.2.2 Environmental Restoration Generation Projections
2.3 Low-Level Waste Disposal Volumes
2.3.1 Low-Level Waste Disposal in Waste Management Program Disposal Facilities
2.3.2 Low-Level Waste Disposal in Environmental Restoration Disposal Facilities
2.3.3 Low-Level Waste Projections for Disposal in Commercial Disposal Facilities
2.4 Mixed Low-Level Waste Disposal Volumes
2.4.1 Mixed Low-Level Waste Disposal in Waste Management Program Disposal Facilities
2.4.2 Mixed Low-Level Waste Disposal in Environmental Restoration Disposal Facilities
2.4.3 Mixed Low-Level Waste Projections for Disposal in Commercial Disposal Facilities
2.5 Base Case Comparison of Facility-Specific Volumetric Projections and Disposal Capacity
2.5.1 Waste Management Program Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities
2.5.1.1 Hanford Site
2.5.1.2 Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Radioactive Waste Management Complex
2.5.1.3 Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Area-54
2.5.1.4 Nevada Test Site
2.5.1.5 Oak Ridge Reservation Solid Waste Storage Area-6, Interim Waste Management Facility
2.5.1.6 Savannah River Site Waste Management Program Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities
2.5.1.6.1 Low Activity Waste Vaults
2.5.1.6.2 Intermediate Level Vault
2.5.1.6.3 Slit Trenches
2.5.2 Waste Management Program Mixed Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities
2.5.2.1 Hanford Radioactive Mixed Waste Trenches 31 and 34
2.5.2.2 Nevada Test Site Mixed Waste Disposal Unit
2.5.3 Environmental Restoration Program Disposal Facilities
2.5.3.1 Fernald Environmental Management Project
2.5.3.2 Hanford Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility
2.6 Alternative Scenario Comparison of Volumetric Projections and Disposal Capacity for To Be Determined Low-Level Waste and Waste to be Disposed in Not-Yet-Constructed Facilities
2.6.1 Hanford 200 Area Low-Level Burial Grounds
2.6.2 Nevada Test Site Areas 3 and 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites
2.6.3 Savannah River Site Slit Trenches
2.6.4 Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Area-54
2.7 Alternative Scenario Comparison of Volumetric Projections and Disposal Capacity for Mixed Low-Level Waste
2.7.1 Hanford Radioactive Mixed Waste Trenches 31 and 34
2.7.2 Nevada Test Site Mixed Waste Disposal Unit
3.0 RADIOLOGICAL PROJECTIONS AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS
3.1 Methodology of the Radiological Disposal Capacity Analysis
3.1.1 Estimation and Projection of Radioactivity for Disposal
3.1.2 Formulas Used in Sum-of-Fractions Capacity Analysis
3.1.3 Disposal Limits Used in the Radiological Capacity Analysis
3.2 Radionuclide Inventory Projections for Low-Level and Mixed Low-Level Waste
3.3 Sources of Uncertainty in the Analysis
3.3.1 Uncertainty in Disposal Limits
3.3.2 Uncertainty in Estimation and Projection of Radionuclide Inventories
3.3.2.1 Assigning Radionuclide Concentration Profiles to Waste Streams with no Profiles
3.3.2.2 Estimating Aggregate Radionuclide Profiles at Year 2070 by Projection
3.3.2.3 Assigning Disposal Locations for Waste Streams
3.4 Base Case Facility-Specific Radiological Projections and Capacities
3.4.1 Hanford Site 200 Area Low-Level Burial Ground
3.4.2 Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Radioactive Waste Management Complex
3.4.3 Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Area-54
3.4.4 Nevada Test Site Areas 3 and 5
3.4.5 Oak Ridge Reservation Interim Waste Management Facility
3.4.6 Savannah River Site
3.4.6.1 Low Activity Waste Vaults
3.4.6.2 Intermediate Level Vaults
3.4.6.3 Slit Trenches
3.5 Alternative Scenario Facility-Specific Radiological Projections and Capacities
3.5.1 Alternative Scenarios for Low-Level Waste
3.5.1.1 Hanford Site 200 Area Low Level Burial Ground
3.5.1.2 Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Area
3.5.1.3 Nevada Test Site Areas 3 and 5
3.5.2 Alternate Scenarios for Mixed Low-Level Waste
3.5.2.1 Hanford Site
3.5.2.2 Nevada Test Site
4.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
4.1 Summary
4.2 Conclusions
APPENDIX A Disposal Facility Summaries
APPENDIX B Radiological Projection and Capacity Analysis
APPENDIX C Key Radionuclides and Generation Processes
APPENDIX D-1 LLW and MLLW Generated by Sources Other than Environmental Restoration and Planned for Disposal by Waste Management
APPENDIX D-2 Methodology Used to Estimate Radionuclide Profiles of Environmental Restoration Waste
APPENDIX E Definitions and References
APPENDIX F Errata for Capacity Report Revision 0

Last Reviewed/Updated 4/6/2009
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