EIS-0113_Section_11 - Hanford Site

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by DOE to meet the
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in the AEC guidelines and
re¢ulati on., a further concern was the 1982 Nuclear Neste Policy
Act (20).. This 1aµ ....ir.. commercial and military high-level
waste to be —.1ited from the biosphere in a permanent, d...
BeoloBical reposa[or v,
and that such repositories be licensed by
the Nuclear Requlat:+ : ..... a. on, not DOE. The 1992 law defined
hi oh-1 eve1 w 1- the historical tradition,
the M1i gn:-- radi ... live .material resulting from the
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waste produced directly in reprocessin6 and any
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V Environmental Protection Agency (2e). li t the NkL and the EPA
began regulating high-level waste in the failed Hanford high-
.. level -.ate tacks. tt ...1. repres.nk a di--nit on of DOE
- autnority or DOE property, and it would establish a precedent.
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V anq 1902. the first moda{acsti o.-. of tli. AEC guidelines
began with the ,E.artc f part of the he. DOE Order solely for
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transuranic waste management :21i. This portion of the new DoE
Order changed the de{imtaom of transuranic or plutonium. waste
from 10 to 100 nCi/g. Plutonium waste less than 10'.• nCi/g becams
low-level waste. Of further import ante, transuranic waste he
longer had to be sent to a - {eaerai repository it DOE could
demonstrate to itsel f that the .oats was sa+aly burietl where it
was. Although the amount of Iran=_ura— waste at Hanford above 10
nCi/D was estimated by E'om at up to a_ onion cubic meters, the
amount abcie lo! • nCi / 8 waa esto.atcv in 198] by DOE at 4 mallabn
cubic meters i«: Ir. 1909, without ei.pl ao ii.n. the 4an suratuc
contaminated soil a- Hanford ch Cc seb from i million tc i (
chblo meters 123).
The filial version of the new in' urda. iar rihvitae_ .a waste
man aBemPnt was publish PC :n 1-84 -,. wain c 1n, '.sw o,der, the
definition of ri,levei o pcta ant tn. . , or tn u C:sposal of
high-Ie el ...t. clang._. The her. oe...._.an for rign ie.0 waste
base..:
The highly radioactive waste matena. that -esults
from the reprocessing of -pent nuclear fuel, anclud:ng
liquiv to produced of redly in
rsprocessany are an, s.It. waste ..rived frrm that
laouad. that Cohtairs ombination of TRO whsle
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