The Energy Policy Act of 1992 called on the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and provide recommendations for reducing the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning (D&D) the nation's uranium enrichment facilities located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Raducah, Kentucky; and Portsmouth, Ohio. This volume examines the existing plans and cost estimates for the D&D of these facilities, including such elements as technologies, planning and management, and identifies approaches that could reduce D&D costs. It also assesses options for disposition of the large quantities of depleted uranium hexafluoride that are stored at these sites.
- Cover
- FRONT MATTER
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE GDP SITES: PROCESS, FACILITIES, INVENTORIES, AND RISKS
- 3 DECONTAMINATION PROCESSES
- 4 ANALYSES OF THE D&D COST ESTIMATES FOR THE GDPs
- 5 PLANNING THE D&D PROGRAM
- 6 OPPORTUNITIES FOR D&D COST REDUCTION
- 7 DISPOSITION OF THE DUF6
- 8 MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS
- APPENDICES
- A: STATEMENT OF TASK
- B: THE COMMITTEE
- C: COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES
- D: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF
- E: RADIONUCLIDE CHARACTERIZATION AND DETECTION
- F: AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS
- G: NUCLEAR CRITICALITY
- H: PREVIOUS DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING EFFORTS
- I: WASTE TREATMENT
- J: REVIEW OF EXISTING COST ESTIMATES
- GLOSSARY
- ACRONYMS