The Barnwell license does not permit the acceptance of waste where the TRU is greater than 1% of the total activity.
The Envirocare license is radionuclide specific. The limit for Pu-239 is 10 nCi/g.
From the generator's point of view, anything not acceptable at a low level waste disposal facility is not low level waste.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:
TRU waste is defined as waste that contains more than 100 nCi/gram of elements heavier than uranium. However, according to the WIPP Land Withdrawal Act, only "defense-generated" waste can go to the WIPP for disposal. So non-defense waste that meets the TRU definition wouldn't be accepted for disposal at the WIPP. Actually the EBR-II waste falls into this category of TRU waste that is not defense-generated.A great deal of TRU waste could be categorized as LLW Class C (or A or B). In fact, about 10% of the identified TRU waste meets the criteria for LSA.
Ruth
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com