Affordable Cleanup?

Affordable Cleanup?

Opportunities for Cost Reduction in the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the Nation's Uranium Enrichment Facilities

  • Éditeur: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309054386
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309552981
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309175876
  • Lieu de publication:  United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 1996
  • Mois : Mars
  • Pages: 324
  • DDC: 690
  • Langue: Anglais

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

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