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1.2 TRU WASTE COMPARISONS<br />

1.3<br />

The defense program TRU wastes will require a variety <strong>of</strong> treatment procedures. Because<br />

potential treatment procedures for these wastes are not yet sufficiently well defined to<br />

develop good estimates <strong>of</strong> treated waste forms and quantities, they are compared to commer-<br />

cial TRU wastes on the basis <strong>of</strong> untreated quantities and radionuclide compositions in<br />

Table 1.2.1. The quantity <strong>of</strong> defense program TRU wastes is about the same magnitude as the<br />

estimated commercial wastes for the Case 3 growth assumptions (see Chapter 7). The pluto-<br />

nium content is similar to the commercial waste. In both cases, the americium and curium<br />

content varies over a wide range.

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