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Abstracts effectual. Unfortunately, among expected problems at the water drain in the cooling pond the most complicated one can appear not solved problem of safe recycling or natural transformation of higher aquatic plants, phyto- and zooplankton, molluscs and fish. <strong>The</strong> planned mode of water drain will result in destruction of huge both on biomass and quantity of plant and animal species. Up to 100,000 tons of biota, among which practically all of higher aquatic plants, zoobenthos, significant quantity of fish, will be lost. Many species of waterfowls and other birds will lose their habitats, including rare, vulnerable and endangered species. Separately it is necessary to mention the problem of dose rate increase on biota due to occupancy of drained territories with high density of radioactive contamination, and also in connection with expected increase of the radionuclide content in all components of lake ecosystems, which will formed after water drain of the cooling pond. SESSION M1: Environmental Management 1) 40086 – Legacy Management: Turning Liabilities into Assets Joe Legare, Eric Olson, S.M. Stoller Corporation (USA) <strong>The</strong> U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) is responsible for stewardship of over 85 sites across the USA dating back to the Manhattan Project and associated with the nuclear weapons production mission. This responsibility for the long-term environmental management of these sites includes the key requirements to ensure protection of human health and protection of the environment from residual contamination, and to manage over 100,000 ft3 of associated records. <strong>The</strong> Legacy Management program, through its prime contractor, provides program management, field and technical support, data collection and analysis and project planning and implementation in support of the DOE to achieve its mission. With a defined program baseline of 75 years, and a theoretical baseline that may extend beyond this time period, effective programmatic integration of these myriad sites, and appropriate consideration of life-cycle implications to risk and cost of stewardship decisions is essential to the success of the program. This presentation will provide an overview of the more than 85 sites in the Legacy Management program, including a discussion of prior mission and associated environmental contamination issues; ramifications of the different regulatory and cleanup approaches taken during active remediation; and the challenges of the current long-term surveillance and maintenance mission. Additionally, the presentation will address lessons learned during the first eight years of the Legacy Management program in terms of risk management, public and stakeholder involvement, institutional controls, regulatory agreements and the issues associated with transition from active remediation to long-term surveillance and maintenance. Some of the case histories of how environmental management of these varied sites has evolved over time will be presented. 2) 40270 – Lessons Learned in Planning the Canadian Nuclear Legacy Liabilities Program Michael Stephens, Sheila M. Brooks, Joan Miller, Robert Mason, AECL (Canada) In 2006, AECL and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) began implementing a Nuclear Legacy Liabilities Program (NLLP) to manage the liabilities at AECL’s nuclear sites in Canada. <strong>The</strong>se liabilities include shutdown research and prototype power reactors, fuel-handling facilities, radiochemical laboratories, support buildings, radioactive waste storage facilities, and contaminated lands. <strong>The</strong> delivery of the Program is managed by a Liability Management Unit (LMU) within AECL. <strong>The</strong> NLLP comprises a large program of interlinked decommissioning, waste management and environmental restoration activities being executed at different sites, and by various technical groups as suppliers to the LMU. This paper describes the lessons learned in planning the “start-up” phase, which will conclude 2011 March, and the planning of the second phase, a 5-year program, which is currently being finalized. <strong>The</strong> initial “start-up” phase was planned by a small group of experts. Although effort was made to communicate the goals and overall strategy of the Program to the groups that would carry out the work, progress was slower than anticipated because AECL was ramping up from a minimal maintenance mode and the required increase in staff and technical resources was not sufficiently understood. Many of the projects being addressed within the Program are oneof-a-kind, and the essential base information on which to prepare detailed execution plans was not available to accurately plan the work. Internal reviews of the Program examined progress and identified several improvements to planning. <strong>The</strong>se included strengthening communications, conducting more advance planning of the interlinked activities, and building flexibility into the commitments made about activities that had yet to reach major decision points. <strong>The</strong> priorities for executing the required activities in the Program were set using criteria based on risks the liabilities presented to health, safety, the environment and to AECL’s business. In future, the decision criteria will also include the value gained for funds expended, and greater consideration will be given to mitigating risks to the execution of the Program. It was also determined that licensing strategies and processes need to be well-defined, and waste characterization methods and disposition pathways must be in place to deal with the wastes the Program will generate. Case studies will be presented in the paper to illustrate these lessons learned. <strong>The</strong> NLLP is funded by the Government of Canada through NRCan. 52
Abstracts 3) 40292 – GIS-Based Decision Support System for the Former Semipalatinsk Test Site Maira Mukusheva, Sergey Baranov, National Nuclear Center (Kazakhstan) Termination of the nuclear tests and closure of the Semipalatinsk test site, taking into account the collapsed economy of the former Soviet Union brought to a situation when a huge area most part of which was contaminated with radioactive substances became open and uncontrolled providing a free access to the test site. Residents from the neighboring settlements used the opportunity. <strong>The</strong>y did not realize the hazard imposed during live-stock grazing, ferrous and non-ferrous metal scavenging, dismantling of buildings and structures located at the area. Grazing areas of some wintering grounds are located close to the nuclear tests areas. People living at the wintering ground and summer pastures, are occupied with grazing of cattle, sheep stock and drove of horses. Radioactive contamination of the site is caused by ground and above-ground nuclear explosions. In such a situation the main task was evaluation and prediction of radioecological situation, safety of economic activity. Application of geographic informational systems for analysis of radioecological process at radioactive contaminated nuclear test locations will make possible to process large amount of different information required for solution of problems related to the rehabilitation of contaminated areas. Efficiency, possibility to integrate ecological, social, economic, and management information on the unified geographic basis and combination with mathematic analysis tools, distinguish the geoinformational systems out of the existing applied programs. <strong>The</strong> universality determines the attractiveness of their application for a wide range of tasks. To evaluate and predict radioecological situation at the STS, a radioecological monitoring system (REMS) is developed on the basis of GIS-technologies. <strong>The</strong> system is designed to provide information, methodic and instrument support for preparation processes and management decision making in economic activity at the STS. To check the efficiency of the REMS and demonstrate applicability of GIS-technologies, risks calculation is performed for the STS population as part of analysis for consequences of ecosystems radioactive contamination. On the basis of analysis for references, field and laboratory experiments, main ways of pasture ecosystems contamination at STS are revealed and radionuclides are determined which make the most contribution to the additional radiation exposure to population carrying on economic activity in the region. Revised is the nature of agricultural production, schematic maps are constructed for location of economic agents. Using all available information, evaluation is carried out for actual condition and a prediction is made for possible negative consequences of radioactive contamination to the population of the former STS. 4) 40218 – RFID Technology for Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management Hanchung Tsai, Yung Liu, ANL (USA); James Shuler, US DOE (USA) We have developed an advanced Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system capable of tracking and monitoring a wide range of materials and components for the nuclear industry – from fissionable stocks to radioactive wastes. <strong>The</strong> RFID technology has a number of advantages, such as enhanced safety and security, reduced personnel exposure to radiations, and improved inventory control. <strong>The</strong> sensors in the RFID tags monitor the state of health (e.g., temperature, shock, seal, dose, and dose rate) of the item and send out an alarm instantly when the sensor threshold is violated. Nonvolatile memories in the tag store data from sensors and event records, as well as manifest information if so desired. In irradiation tests, the tag electronics was confirmed to possess significant radiation resistance and, therefore, would yield a satisfactory service life. Long-life batteries and smart management circuitries permit the RFID tags to operate for up to 10 years without a battery replacement. <strong>The</strong> form factor of the tags can be modified to suit different container types. <strong>The</strong> read range can be up to 100 m, and no line-of-sight between the tagged items and the interrogator (reader) is necessary. With careful implementation, even a large-size processing or storage facility with a complex configuration can be monitored with a handful of readers in a network. In transportation, by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite/cellular communication protocols, the locations and the conditions of the tagged containers can be continuously tracked. <strong>The</strong> RFID system also integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, which uses information in preexisting geodatabases to generate and issue reports instantly to first responders for situation recovery in case of incidents. In stand-alone applications, the monitoring and tracking data are contained within the local control computer; with a secure Internet connection, multiple users can share the data in real time within the complex or beyond. As with the deployment of any new technology, overcoming the cultural resistance is part of the developmental process. With a strong institutional support and multiple convincing live demonstrations, the cultural resistance has been largely overcome. As a result, implementation of the RFID technology is taking place at several of U.S. Department of Energy installations for processing, storage, and transportation applications. 5) 40181 – <strong>The</strong> Radioactivity of 3H in Metals by a High Temperature Furnace and a Liquid Scintillation Counter Hee Reyoung Kim, Geun Sik Choi, Sang Yun Park, Chang Woo Lee, Moon Hee Han, KAERI (Korea Rep.) <strong>The</strong> radioactivity of 3H of the metal samples from the nuclear sites was analyzed by using a commercialized high temperature furnace and a Liquid Scintillation Counter (LSC). <strong>The</strong> 3H activity of the sample was measured according to the duration of the high temperature combustion and the oxidation temperature. Basically, the recovery from the furnace was 90% for 3H and the LSC had a quenching efficiency of approximately 30 %. HNO3 was used as a trapping solution for 3H and the solution was cocktailed with a scintillator. <strong>The</strong> activity extracted from the sample was increased till the combustion time elapsed 60 minutes and the increasing rate was reduced continuously thereafter at 600 degree in centigrade whereas 80 % of radioactivity was extracted during the first 15 minutes at 900 degree in centigrade. Also, the pretreatment for the metal sample, which included a high temperature combustion and trapping, had the time required of at least four hours at 900 degree in centigrade. Finally, it was suggested that this high temperature combustion method could be applied to analyze the activity of the radioactive metal waste from the nuclear power plants. 53
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