ML20126H252
| ML20126H252 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/04/1992 |
| From: | Bahadur S, Liza Cunningham Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
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| ML20126H241 | List: |
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| REF-WM-3, RTR-REGGD-01.021, RTR-REGGD-1.021 NUDOCS 9301050115 | |
| Download: ML20126H252 (2) | |
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[ \ ) ,, = g NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHING TON. D. C. 20M5 (4...*/,t DEC - 71992 MEMORANDUM FOR: Those on Attached List FROM: Sher Bahadur, Acting Chief Low-level Waste Management Branch Division of Low level Waste Management and Decommissioning Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards LeMoine J. Cunningham, Chief Radiation Protection Branch Olvision of Radiation Protection and Emergency Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
WASTE VOLUME REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF RG 1.21 AND THE NEED FOR WASTE CLASSIFICATION DOCUMENTAi10N The minutes of the April 1992 Reactor Health Physics Counterpart meeting identified two items (K-5 and K-6) requiring resolution. The first involved a question regarding the volumes and activity of low-level waste, sent offsite-for processing, which should.be reported per RG 1.21 in the reactor licensees' semiannual (now annual) effluent release reports (i.e., per 50.36a). This question came up again recently in a telephone conversation with a contractor involved in decommissioning activities at the Shoreham plant. The second iten involved the need for a licensee to provide waste classification documentation for radioactive material shipped to a processor for segregation prior to subsequent offsite disposal.
The solid waste information reported in the annual report should be the volume and activity of the low-level waste leaving the reactor site which the licensee believas will be sent directly, or via a precessor or collector, to a licensed disposal site. Consistent with this response,_and Regulatory Guide-l.21, Table 3, the report should identify the type of waste, the number of shipments, mode of transportation, and destination-of the waste shipments leaving the licensee's facility. If it is known by the licensee that waste shipped to a processor is to be received back following processing, the volume and hetivity of the processed waste would not be included in the annuel reports until the waste again leaves the site for disposal.
With respect to the second item, current regulations [20.311(d)] require the-preparation of a manifest for transfers of radioactive' waste to a land disposal facility, a licensed waste collector, or a licensed waste processor.
The term, " radioactive waste," as used above applies to the transfer of any radioactive material for which no further use by the license is foreseen s (e.g., material sent for compaction prior to disposal is waste; contaminated tools transferred for decontamination prior to intended reuse is not waste).
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I On the follow-on question, the regul'ations do 821 require a generator to classify waste.being-sent to a processor. LClassification is only required if the generator is shipping low-level waste to a collector or directly-to the
- disposal site. _ Note that the May 1983 Technical Positionion Radioactive Waste--
Classification incorrectly states that transfers of waste to a: processor- .
require licensees to classify the waste.- A pending revision to this Technical:
Position incorporates the needed correction.-
M $$CINT) 9Y Sher Bahadur, Acting Chief -
Low-level Waste Management Branch ~ ~
Division of Low-level-Waste Management and Decommissioning Office of Nuclear Material Safety and: Safeguards:
E M 'Sl@lD)(Jy LeMoine J. Cunningham, Chief Radiation' Protection Branch Division of Radiation Protection
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