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Defense TRU <strong>Waste</strong><br />

On hand as <strong>of</strong><br />

September 30, 1979<br />

TABLE 1.2.1. Comparison <strong>of</strong> Defense and Commercial TRU <strong>Waste</strong>s<br />

Volume, m 3<br />

Soil<br />

Retrievably Contaminated<br />

Stored Buried by Burial Total kg kg/m 3<br />

e Hanford 8.0 x 104 1.6 x 105 1.4 x 105 3.8 x 105<br />

- 3<br />

* INEL 3.7 x 104 5.6 x 104 0 9.3 x 104 8 x 10<br />

* LASL 1.5 x 104 1.1 x 104 1.7 x 104 4.3 x 104<br />

* ORNL 1.2 x 10 3 6.1 x 104 1.6 x 105 1.7 x 105<br />

* SRP 2.4 x 10 3 2.7 x 10 4<br />

* Other 2.4 x 103 5.7 x 103 5.0 x 103 1.3 x 104<br />

TRU Content, Ci/m 3 (a)<br />

238u 239u 241Am 244Cm<br />

- 1<br />

5 x 10<br />

- 1<br />

3.5 x 10<br />

- 2<br />

1.4 3.4 x 10<br />

3.4 x 104 6.3 x 104 2.8 x 10-2 1.5 x 102 1.2 1.6 x 101<br />

Total 6.5 x 10 4 - 3<br />

2.6 x 105 3.6 x 105 7.6 x 105 >1.1 x 103 >1.4 x 10<br />

Estimated Annual<br />

Generation,<br />

1980 to 2000 6.8 x 10 0 0 6.8 x 103<br />

Commercial TRU <strong>Waste</strong><br />

Estimated to Result<br />

from Repgocessing<br />

2.4 x 10 MTHM<br />

(Case 3 growth<br />

projection)<br />

* Untreated from FRPs 7.0 x 105 0 0 7.0 x 105 1.1 x 10 4 1.5 x 10 - 2 7.9 5.5 x 10-1 4.8 x 10-1 9.0 x 10-1<br />

* Untreated from 4<br />

MOX-FFPs 6.6 x 104 0 0 6.6 x 104 4.5 x 103 6.8 x 10 - 2 1.6 x 101 1.2 1.2 x 102 0<br />

Total 7.7 x 105 7.7 x 105 1.6 x 104<br />

(a) Composition <strong>of</strong> defense TRU waste is based on estimate for retrievably stored waste only as <strong>of</strong> late 1977.

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