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for a facility to perform removal <strong>of</strong> large volumes <strong>of</strong> mobile radioactive wastes from existing<br />

near-surface storage facilities at Oak Ridge.<br />

6.1.6.7 Safeguard Requirements<br />

Because <strong>of</strong> the restrictions concerning the transportation <strong>of</strong> high-level liquid waste,<br />

which require the injection facility to be colocated with the fuel reprocessing plant, the<br />

accessibility to sensitive materials would be extremely limited. However, this waste dis-<br />

posal system would probably be used in a uranium-plutonium recycle fuel cycle so there would<br />

be incremental increases in accessibility in other parts <strong>of</strong> the fuel cycle similar to most<br />

recycle scenarios. In addition, the difficulty <strong>of</strong> retrieving material once it had been suc-<br />

cessfully disposed <strong>of</strong> would increase the difficulty <strong>of</strong> diversion and the waste form (liquid)<br />

would complicate the transportation and handling problems for a potential diverter. The deep<br />

well injection repository would require additional safeguards since at least partial retrie-<br />

val by drilling and pumping might be possible. Material accountability would.be enhanced by<br />

ease <strong>of</strong> sampling and measurement <strong>of</strong> liquids, but gross accountability (i.e., gallons vs can-<br />

isters) would be slightly more difficult than for the reference mined geologic concept.<br />

See Section 4.10 for additional discussion <strong>of</strong> predisposal operations safeguard<br />

requi rements.

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