RE: WIPP -- Urgent Request

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

Some years ago I attended a workshop at INEEL where the following data were
presented:

Opening a drum and examining the contents takes two workers, fully suited in
PPE, and ALARA limits their time for doing this to 2 hours per day.  

This is not a direct answer to your question, but may help.  Give me a call
at Sandia and I may be able to dig up more information.

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: bnasca@kcp.com [mailto:bnasca@kcp.com]
Sent: January 07, 2000 10:49 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: WIPP -- Urgent Request




This message was forwarded for the RADSAFE community.

This is an urgent request.  At WIPP, the State EPA is trying to force us to
reopen every drum of waste to do recharacterization of the contents by
visual inspections.  We are looking for a way to quantify the risk to the
worker associated with the increased number of operations this situation
would create.   Is there a published or previously calculated probability
of
this risk based on the # of glovebox operations or the number of
throughput?
We are especially interested in a response from LANL and Rocky Flats.

Thanks for your help,

Belinda Niemi (Niemib@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us)
Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Government Services
Waste Isolation Division
Nuclear Safety Analysis


************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html

************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html