ML19344D580
| ML19344D580 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 01/08/1979 |
| From: | Kligfield G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Tourigny E NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0527, RTR-NUREG-527 NUDOCS 8004250057 | |
| Download: ML19344D580 (2) | |
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9 liEMORANDU'i FOR:.E. Tourigny Operacions and Planning Branch FRO?i:
G. Kligfield Technology Assessment Branch
SUBJECT:
RADI0 ACTIVE LIQUID WASTES DISCHARGED TO GROUND AT THE HANFORD PLANT The following suppiaments the data presented in my trip report dated January 3, 1979.
I verbally reported that high level wastes had been discharged.to ground into cribs in the 20D areas duri.:g the 1953.through 1957 pericd. This was during the period of operation when the HanTord production commitments (for plu'tonium) coincided with the time when catterW, vel raste storage tank capacity was not available (a high le unding for tank construction). Tank storage was made available for fresh wastes from reprocessing and U-plant (metal recovery) by decanting supernatant from existing tankage and sending some 1st cycle and 2nd cycle wastes dirsctly to cribs.
From a review of the data in the Rockwell Hanford Report, RH0-CD-78-3420, Radioactive Liquid Wastes Discharged to Ground in the 200 Areas, the following data was assachied:
Time period 1953 through 1957 No. of cribs (the active life for most cribs was only a few months.
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Average liquid waste discharged (random sampling) 9 U-,lant scavenged wasteiel.5xiO6 gal 9k ist and 2nd cycle supernatant v:40x105 gal This report provides a complete listing of all the activa and i
inactive cribs, the quantities of liquid wastes discharged, the cmount.s of plutonium and urani'rm in the crias and the activity' of sever ~al nuclides (Co-60, Sr-90, Ru-105, Cs-137, etc.)
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