ML20137D221

Comments on 810915 Plan for Managing Defense Transuranic Wastes.Plan Sound & Makes Good Technical Sense.Plan Consistent W/Technical Requirements Proposed in 10CFR60 & 61

ML20137D221
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Issue date:	09/30/1981
From:	Martin J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Oertzel G ENERGY, DEPT. OF
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ML20137D219	List: IA-85-543, Comments on 810915 Plan for Managing Defense Transuranic Wastes.Plan Sound & Makes Good Technical Sense.Plan Consistent W/Technical Requirements Proposed in 10CFR60 & 61 ML20137D215 ML20137D221
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202.1 Dr. Goet2 K. Certel Director Office of Waste Operations and Technology Nuclear Waste Management and Fuel Cycle Programs Department of Energy Washingtor., D.C.

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Dear D. Certel:

In your letter to me dated September 15, 1981, you described a plan for mv.sgine defense transuranic (TRU) wastes and asked for any comments we may have.

You sta ted:

"that we [ DOE] are considering to require repository disposal for defense TRU wastes with concentrations of'100 nanocuries per gram or mcre; cnd to require greater confinem&nt than shallow land burial for radioactive wastes with TRU content of 10 to 100 nano-curies per gram "

D believe that your plan is sound and makes good technical sense.

Note that we egree with your view that your pian is consistent with the technical requirements proposed in 10 CFR Parts 60 and 61.

Part 60 prescribes requirements for TRU wastes if they are to be placed in a repository but does not require rtoository disposal of TRU wastes.

Part 61 proposes an upper concentration limit of 10 nanocuries per gram for alpha-emitting TRU isotopes for routine di:posa'. by aen -

surface methods but does not preclude disposal of concentratiens in excess of 10 nanoturies per gram by deeper methods providing greater confinerent than provided

.by near-sur#::e disptdal.

Ir. fact, intert..ediate depth disposal or mined cavity disposal 16y be suitt.ble for disposal of concentrations in excess of 100 r.anc-curies per gram.

We plan on examining this issue during the coming year as we consider subsequent amendments to Part 61.

I hope these comments are useful to you.

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