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Forwards General Description of Low Level Waste Generated for Commercial Disposal in Us.Statements in Encl Best Reflect Knowledge of Wastes & Should Provide Adequate Overview for Responding to Requests
ML20215K243
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Issue date: 10/30/1979
From: Bishop C
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Browning R, Gagner S, Kerr W
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS), NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA), NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP)
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P.E.MA.RKS Please find enclosed a general review of low-level wastes. The statements in the enclosure best reflect our knowledge of the wastes, and should provide an adequate overview for responding to requests for general information on the characteristics of low-level wastes.

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wastes from fuel fabrication plants, can induce significant fluctuations in the proportions of activity and/or volumes'of waste from major sources. ,

The NRC staff estimates for 1977 and the NUS Corporation's results for 1978 low-level wastes are shown in Table I. This may be use'ful in our responses to the general public, keeping'in mind the caveats noted above. The initial paragraph of this report does however, present the best broad picture of low-level wastes. More detailed information can be found in the following documents:

1) Memo from Dale Smith to John B. Martin dated August'10, 1979. . .

. 2) " preliminary State by State Assessment of Low-Level Radioactive Wastes .:

Shipped to Commercial Burial Grounds," by NUS Corporation,- August 1979.

A thorough understanding of the assumptions and limitations within the data bases for these documents cannot be provided in this overview. Many of-the estimates were made to bound specific technical issues, or were included as a strawman until a detailed study could be made.

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF LOW-LEVEL WASTE GENERATED FOR COMMERCIAL DISPOSA.L IN THE UNITED STATES l

l To briefly summarize, the major waste sources are licensed power reactors, i institutions (hospitals, clinics, universities, etc.) and. government and industrial users and producers of radioactive materials. The current waste l generation rate is about 3 million cubic feet per year, containing about three quarters of a million curies of activity. The following summary combines the values from an NRC staff projection of low-level waste characteristics based i 1

on 1977 data and a 1978 study of low-level waste conducted by the Office of l Nuclear Waste Isolation at Battelle Memorial Institute. Data for 1977 and 1978 1 1

show that licensed power reactors generate approximately half of the volume of '

LLW which contains about half of the radioactivity. Most of the radioactivity 1

in licensed power reactor wastes was contained in a relatively small volume of

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activated stainless steel components. Institutional wastes account for approxi- I mately thirty percent of the volume of waste disposed-in this country, but contain I a negligible fraction of the activity. Industrial and government sources generate approximately twenty percent of the volume and half the radioactivity. Most of the radioactivity is generated by industrial sources, such as the companies which pro-duce radioisotopes for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Industrial and government sources are also the major generators of thorium and natural and depleted uranium.

waste which is generated at a rate of about 2 million pounds per year.

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A more precise breakdown than this could be misleading, The volume and activity of waste generated by any one source during any one year may vary widely. For example, activities such as cleanup of Three Mile Island, the ban on disposal

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