Sentences with phrase «tru waste»
Qualified in TRU waste analysis and shipment (2003) and previously held a Wastewater Certification (1999).
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Instead, SRIC believes that DOE must supplement the West Valley FEIS to describe the legal and regulatory requirements for WIPP and that West Valley TRU waste is prohibited at WIPP, since the FEIS does not describe those requirements.
EPA must conduct a rulemaking to approve RH TRU waste characterization plans and emplacement of RH waste in WIPP.
West Valley TRU waste is prohibited from storage or disposal at WIPP.
TRU waste could also be shipped to WIPP for interim storage prior to disposal there.»
TRU waste from West Valley was not included in the permit application, nor in the permit issued.
The State of New Mexico operating permit does not include any West Valley TRU waste.
The WIPP Land Withdrawal Act (PL 102 - 579, as amended) specifies that WIPP is exclusively for TRU waste «generated by atomic energy defense activities.»
West Valley FEIS alternative B is that «TRU waste would be shipped to Hanford, INEEL, ORNL, or SRS for interim storage, and then to WIPP for disposal.
In September 2017, the DOE Inspector General issued a report, Interim Storage of Transuranic Waste at the Department of Energy, that «found that the sites were able to meet their individual interim TRU waste storage needs until WIPP resumed operations.»
Nonetheless, the West Valley FEIS states that the preferred alternative A includes: «TRU waste shipments to WIPP could occur within the next 10 years if the TRU waste is determined to meet all requirements for disposal in this repository; however, if some or all of WVDP's TRU waste does not meet these requirements, the Department would need to explore other alternatives for disposal of this waste.»
Thus, DOE has known since at least 1992 that West Valley TRU waste was prohibited at WIPP.
The TRU waste from West Valley was not included in the Transuranic Waste Baseline Inventory Report (Revision 3), June 1996, which provided the inventory information for the performance assessment used to certify that WIPP meets EPA disposal requirements, pursuant to the WIPP Act, Section 8 (d).
Thus, DOE should analyze the reasonable alternatives for storage and disposal of West Valley TRU waste that do not include WIPP.
Such an analysis was not done in the West Valley FEIS, which is a totally inadequate NEPA document as regards those TRU wastes.
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At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).
That more than 1,500 - page permit establishes requirements for many aspects of WIPP's operations, including providing the procedures for how each container of transuranic (TRU or plutonium - contaminated) waste is examined (characterized) before it can be shipped to WIPP.
SRIC strongly objects to the portions of the West Valley Final EIS related to transuranic (TRU) waste, especially including Preferred Alternative A and Alternative B. Neither of those two alternatives is consistent with legal and regulatory requirements, and thus, neither should be considered reasonable alternatives in the West Valley FEIS or any other NEPA document.