Review Of The Department Of Energy S Plans For Disposal Of Surplus Plutonium In The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 225 pages File Size : 46,7 Mb Release : 2020-07-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780309498586
Review of the Department of Energy's Plans for Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued an Interim Report evaluating the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It provided a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA's conceptual plans, focused on some of the barriers to their implementation. This final report addresses the remaining issues and echoes the recommendations from the interim study.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 66 pages File Size : 41,6 Mb Release : 2018-11-30 Category : Science ISBN : 9780309485036
Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. This report evaluates DOE-NNSA's plans to ship, receive, and emplace surplus plutonium in WIPP and its understanding of the impacts of these plans on WIPP and WIPP-bound waste streams. This report, the first of two to be issued during this study, provides a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA's conceptual plans, focusing on some of the barriers to their implementation.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 225 pages File Size : 52,7 Mb Release : 2020-06-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780309498616
Review of the Department of Energy's Plans for Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued an Interim Report evaluating the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It provided a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA's conceptual plans, focused on some of the barriers to their implementation. This final report addresses the remaining issues and echoes the recommendations from the interim study.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 66 pages File Size : 51,6 Mb Release : 2018-12-30 Category : Science ISBN : 9780309485005
Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. This report evaluates DOE-NNSA's plans to ship, receive, and emplace surplus plutonium in WIPP and its understanding of the impacts of these plans on WIPP and WIPP-bound waste streams. This report, the first of two to be issued during this study, provides a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA's conceptual plans, focusing on some of the barriers to their implementation.
Until Proven Safe by Nicola Twilley,Geoff Manaugh Pdf
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world. Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In Until Proven Safe, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply, and meet NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. We live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Until Proven Safe helps us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.
Plutonium Disposition by United States Government Accountability Office Pdf
The United States has pledged to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus, weapons-grade plutonium. The current U.S. approach relies on disposing of the plutonium by irradiating it as MOX fuel-a mixture of plutonium and uranium oxides-in modified commercial nuclear reactors. Due to a significant rise in cost, DOE recently proposed terminating the MOX approach in favor of the dilute and dispose approach, which DOE stated may be less expensive. Under this approach, plutonium would be diluted with inert material and then disposed of in a geologic repository. GAO was asked to review DOE's planning for both the MOX and dilute and dispose approaches. This report examines: (1) the extent to which DOE's revised cost estimates for completing the construction of the MOX facility and for completing the overall Plutonium Disposition Program met best practices, (2) the status of NNSA's development of a life-cycle cost estimate for the dilute and dispose approach, and (3) the extent to which DOE has sufficient disposal space and statutory capacity at WIPP to dispose of all defense TRU waste, including waste from the dilute and dispose approach. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed DOE and NNSA officials, including officials from five major waste-generating sites.
National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 156 pages File Size : 51,8 Mb Release : 2001-06-11 Category : Science ISBN : 9780309183130
Improving Operations and Long-Term Safety of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a deep underground mined facility for the disposal of transuranic waste resulting from the nation's defense program. Transuranic waste is defined as waste contaminated with transuranic radionuclides with half-life greater than 20 years and activity greater than 100 nanocuries per gram. The waste mainly consists of contaminated protective clothing, rags, old tools and equipment, pieces of dismantled buildings, chemical residues, and scrap materials. The total activity of the waste expected to be disposed at the WIPP is estimated to be approximately 7 million curies, including 12,900 kilograms of plutonium distributed throughout the waste in very dilute form. The WIPP is located near the community of Carlsbad, in southeastern New Mexico. The geological setting is a 600-meter thick, 250 million-year-old saltbed, the Salado Formation, lying 660 meters below the surface. The National Research Council (NRC) has been providing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific and technical evaluations of the WIPP since 1978. The committee's task is twofold: (1) to identify technical issues that can be addressed to enhance confidence in the safe and long-term performance of the repository and (2) to identify opportunities for improving the National Transuranic (TRU) Program for waste management, especially with regard to the safety of workers and the public. This is the first full NRC report issued following the certification of the facility by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 18, 1998. An interim report was issued by the committee in April 2000 and is reproduced in this report. The main findings and recommendations from the interim report have been incorporated into the body of this report. The overarching finding and recommendation of this report is that the activity that would best enhance confidence in the safe and long-term performance of the repository is to monitor critical performance parameters during the long pre-closure phase of repository operations (35 to possibly 100 years). Indeed, in the first 50 to 100 years the rates of important processes such as salt creep, brine inflow (if any), and microbial activity are predicted to be the highest and will be less significant later. The committee recommends that the results of the on-site monitoring program be used to improve the performance assessment for recertification purposes. These results will determine whether the need for a new performance assessment is warranted. For the National TRU Program, the committee finds that the DOE is implementing many of the recommendations of its interim report. It is important that the DOE continue its efforts to improve the packaging, characterization, and transportation of the transuranic waste.
National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Author : National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 56 pages File Size : 55,6 Mb Release : 2000-04-20 Category : Science ISBN : 9780309183765
Improving Operations and Long-Term Safety of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pdf
The National Research Council convened a committee of experts to advise the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository for disposal of defense transuranic (TRU) waste near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The committee was asked to provide recommendations on the following two issues: (1) a research agenda to enhance confidence in the long-term performance of WIPP; and (2) increasing the throughput, efficiency, and cost-benefit without compromising safety of the National TRU Program for characterizing, certifying, packaging, and shipping waste to WIPP. The committee has written this interim report to provide DOE with recommendations on several issues that the committee believes merit immediate consideration and action. In developing this report, the committee has been guided by the principle of "reasonableness" with respect to risks, costs, and the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle. In the committee's judgment, implementing the recommendations contained in this report will contribute to the continued safe operation of WIPP.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Publisher : Unknown Page : 740 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 1999 Category : Energy development ISBN : SRLF:AA0007221658
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2000: Department of Energy, Environmental Management and Commercial Waste Management by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf
United States. Department of Energy. Task Force for Review of Nuclear Waste Management
Author : United States. Department of Energy. Task Force for Review of Nuclear Waste Management Publisher : Unknown Page : 192 pages File Size : 42,9 Mb Release : 1978 Category : Radioactive waste disposal ISBN : UOM:39015038543107
Report of Task Force for Review of Nuclear Waste Management by United States. Department of Energy. Task Force for Review of Nuclear Waste Management Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Publisher : Unknown Page : 1008 pages File Size : 43,7 Mb Release : 2000 Category : Energy development ISBN : SRLF:AA0010258549
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2001: Department of Energy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Publisher : Unknown Page : 740 pages File Size : 44,5 Mb Release : 1999 Category : Energy development ISBN : IND:30000090975792
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2000 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf
Review of the Status of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Project by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee Publisher : Unknown Page : 1118 pages File Size : 54,5 Mb Release : 1980 Category : National security ISBN : STANFORD:36105045132185
Hearings on H.R. 6621 [H.R. 7265], Department of Energy Authorization Legislation (national Security Programs) for Fiscal Year 1981, Before the Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held March 18, April 16, 17, 29, 30, and June 4, 1980 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee Pdf
