Year
1985
Abstract
Defense TRU waste at Savannah River (SR) results from thp Department of Energy's (T-OE) national defense activities, including the operation of production reactors and fuel reprocefipirp plants and research and development activities. TFIT waste is material declared as having negligible economic value, contaminated with alpha-emitting radionuclidep. of stomic number greater than 92, and h?.]f-lives longer than 20 years, in concentrations greater than lOOnCi/g. TRU waste has been retrlevably stored at SR since 1974 gwaiting disposal. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), now under construction in New Mexico, is s research and development facility for demonstrating the safe disposal of defense TRU waste, including that in storage at SR. The major objective of the TRU program at SR is to support the TRTI National Program, which is dedicated to preparing waste for, and emplacing waste in, the WIPP. Thus, the SR Program also supports WIPP operations. The EP. Site specific goals are to phase out the indefinite storage of TFU up.rtp, which has been the mode of. waste msrpgeir-p.nt since 1974 and to dispose of SK's Defense TRU waste.