EIS-0113_Section_11 - Hanford Site

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The key tlffference in the new DOE Drool from the 1993 AEC
issued the new order without public notice or public review
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criteria was to define high-level waste (HLW) as a combination of
transurroic (TFO) waste and fiaeion products (low-level waste).
But the definitive change in the new DOE Or tler was on the treatment
oi its military high-level waster
New antl ...city retrievable existing HLW shalt be
......setl far of sposal in a geologic repository.acddrtling
to the .......... is of the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1962 th.11— Law 97-925). Other waste
will be st abilizetl in place if after the requisite
environmental douimen.a-ion. the stabilization in
place meets applicable EPA standards...Rnv radioactive
waste dippbeed z-io- to implementation of this
Or tler shall be periotlacally ..uttered in p ut. (3).
Altho.gh tLe .ac{ Ike ententes —.ran from the DOE Or tler do at
=_peril. .ci-1 e: el waste, these ....I. tea are located in the
1111.ment p for hi g h.-level waste.
The new DOE Order on r.a.cactive waste management r ereanted
a mai r cbanoe in the mu.ayemart of militar y redi.actiwaste.
Feder a'a re_ul aligns re o_,rx -.n env mental impact statemeet
for federal a-..u. 14. In. ODE did not prepare
2. DOE admitted before a State of Washington legislative hearing
in dune 1966 that Hanford as disposing of low-level radioactive
waste in cardboard boxes.. Including plutonium waste Eelow 100
nanocuries per gram (25). R1tFOUgF DOE Older 5620.2 allows the
use of cartlboartl b.:es, the ARC has banned their use in a .... r-
vial burial grounds. DOE Savannah River Plant has also terminated
the use of cardboard boxes )S). 'Hanford should terminate the use
of cardboard poxes for r.di.a.t... waste, or the EIS sk.h1c ].Atifv
their continued use.
3. The DOE self-regulates its own management of radioactive
wastes. Many of the problems at the Hanford facility all at other
DOE 1ac111ties can be traces to self-management practices. e.q.,
cMangirn DOE standards without public review, using cardboard
b uxes. co er,up. .4 ....... 0,9), recallin g letters antl reports
antl converting them to drafts to avoid Freetlom of Information
requests 0,91, etc. DOE r.di ... five waste management should be
brought untler - ORD, EPA and state regulation, ending the DOE wellregulation
of nuclear wastes.
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an environmental impact star... d. --- the n w DOE Order, and DOE
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