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RESEARCH NEEDS FOR HIGH-LEVEL WASTE STORED IN TANKS AND BINS AT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SITES
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE PROGRAM |
| By: |
Committee on Long-Term Research Needs for Radioactive High-Level Waste at , Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309075653 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309075657 |
| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 September, 2001 |
| Pages: |
146 |
| Description: |
"Support for this study was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Grant No. DE-FC01-99EW59049"--T.p. verso. |
| Synopsis: |
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has approximately 400 million liters (100 million gallons) of liquid high-level waste (HLW) stored in underground tanks and approximately 4,000 cubic meters of solid HLW stored in bins. The current DOE estimate of the cost of converting these liquid and solid wastes into stable forms for shipment to a geological repository exceeds $50 billion to be spent over several decades (DOE, 2000). The Committee on Long-Term Research Needs for Radioactive High-Level Waste at Department of Energy Sites was appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) to advise the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) on a long-term research agenda addressing the above problems related to HLW stored in tanks and bins at DOE sites. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
National Academies Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |