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| Site: | Framatome ANP Richland |
| Issue date: | 06/27/1989 |
| From: | Thiss H SIEMENS POWER CORP. (FORMERLY SIEMENS NUCLEAR POWER |
| To: | Adams S U.S. ECOLOGY, INC. (FORMERLY NUCLEAR ENGINEERING |
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| 25700, HBT:89:143, NUDOCS 8907140258 | |
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Attention: Mr. Steven R. Adams 9200 Shelbyville Road, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40207
Dear Mr. Adams:
Subject:
DISPOSAL OF CONTAMINATED SAND The Advanced Neclear Fuels Corporation (ANF) expects to generate a fairly 3
large volume (-40,000 ft ) of contaminated sand in the coming years.
This volume originates from sand whien has blown into our lagoon system over the years, and has become contaminated with low enriched uranium.
We are currently treating the sand on a batch basis by washing and chemical leaching to reduce the uranium contamination to a level approaching that of Below Regulatory Concern.
We had intended to leach the sand to <30 pCi/g for i
ourfirstbatchofabout4,150ftghatapproachdoesnotappearpracticalsince unrestricted disposal. However, has an average contamination level of about 88 pCi/g of sand following exhaustive chemical leaching (copy of analyses enclosed).
A more practical decontamination goal is to reduce the contamination level to just above the level for unrestricted disposal which is below 250 pCi/g insoluble, and 100 pCi/g soluble enriched uranium.
These limits of 250 pCi/g insoluble and 100 pCi/g of soluble enriched uranium comprise the upper limit of the second disposal option given the Branch Technical Position of NRC published in the Federal Register in Vol. 46, No. 205, Friday, October 23, 1981, p. 52061 (copy attached).
Under this option, disposal would be expected to be approved by NRC when such material is buried at least four feet below the surface at an unlicensed burial site; therefore, it should most certainly be approved at a licensed site.
Our plan is to continue chemical leaching until all soluble material has been dissolved (<100 pCi/g), and the measured contamination level is well below the 250 pCi/g of insoluble enriched uranium.
The uranium currently in our treated sand is present as insoluble material.
We have discussed disposal of our material with various regul atory persons, including George Bidinger (NRC), Jim Shaffner (NRC), Gary Robertson (DSHS), and also with Robert Bidstrup at your site in Richland, Washington.
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c Mr. Charles Coleman HBT:89:143 June 27, 1989 Page 2 There appears to be a general consensus among those contacted that disposal of our material as fill dirt at the Richland disposal site is one of the more environmentally and economically sound solutions.
We believe that the NRC would approve with State of Washington concurrence, a license amendment for your Hanford burial site which would allow the bulk burial of our slightly contaminated sand as lower fill dirt.
We believe that this is an economically attractive method of disposal and would like to enter into a long-term arrangement with U.S.
Ecology for disposal of our slightly contaminated sana.
If such an arrangement is satisfactory to you, please provide your proposed burial cost per cubic foot of delivered sand, and the earliest date on which we could deliver sand for disposal.
We need to complete shipment of the existing batch of sand before l
October 20, 1989, if at all possible.
Our current plan for cleaning contaminated sand is to wash and chemically 3 batches of sand during the warm months (April through mid-leach -4,200 ft October).
We would expect to complete treatment of one or two batches of sand per year.
After decontamination and confirmatory measurements are complete, the sand would be loaded into dump trucks for transport to the burial site.
A batch The trucgs would be covered to prevent blowing during transport.
(4,200 ft ) is equivalent to about 17 dump truckloads.
We would expect to be able to fill and deliver to the U.S.
Ecology Hanford site one or two truckloads a day and could deliver a batch (17 dump truckloads) in a two to four week period.
The delivery rate could accelerate with experience, but would be scheduled with the concurrence of your site management.
We would expect to deliver for burial in the order of one to two batches (17-34 dump truckloads) per year over a five to 10 year period.
This rate could also increase with experience.
When handled in bulk form, there is the possibility of dispersal of the contaminated sand by the wind during burial or during storage on the surface near the trench site while awaiting burial.
Sieve tests of our first batch of treated sand show the material to be relatively coarse with 97 percent of the material being greater than 100 mesh, and 88 percent of the material being greater than 70 mesh.
From our recent visit to the site, and from discussions with U.S. Ecology personnel, it did not appear that wind dispersal of material this close to being Below Regulatory Concern, could be a problem.
Examination of the large sandy site area indicates that any portions of our sand dispersed by wind will automatically be diluted by site sand to well Below Regulatory Concern.
The uranium concentration (-100 ppm) is over 1000 times lower than the minimum critical concentration for a moderated system, and therefore is not a concern from the standpoint of criticality safety.
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We would appreciate your early attention to this request, and stand ready to assist you where possible.
On technical or licensing matters, please contact R. A. Schneider-on (509) 375-8672.
Please feel free to contact me on (509) 375-8432 if I can be of any assistance.
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H. B. Thiss, Manager Purchasing RAS:jrs Enclosures As Stated xc:
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C. J. Fran is CW Malody NS Wing From:
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. ANALYSIS OF SAND SAMPLE DATA INTRODUCTION d
Samples of sand from the solids leaching pit were analyzed by both ANF and i
U.S. Testing.
Core samples were taken from 12 equal area grids. Two samples from each grid location were analyzed by each laboratory.
The samples were.
leached with nitric acid and the uranium concentrations of the leach solutions were measured by fluorhtry.
The' ANF laboratory made duplicate fluorometric analysis of each leach solution while U.S. Testing made a single analysis of each leach solution.
Four composite samples were prepared from the 12 ANF grid samples for enrichment measurements by the ANF mass spectrometer.
An analysis of variance was carried out for the uranium ' analytical results from each laboratory and also for the combined results of both laboratories.
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in micrograms / gram of sand were converted to i
picocuries/ gram of sand using the isotopic composition data from the ANF mass spectrometer.
The measurement variances for analytical, analytical plus sampling and sampling within grids and between grids were determined.
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results of the data analysis are presented and discussed next.
l RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 1
The analytical results from the ANF and U.S.
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summarized in Table 1.
As shown in the table, the values for uranium concentration and radioactivity for the two laboratories are in good l
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agreement. The average values for the combined results from both laboratories are approximately 53 micrograms uranium / gram of sand and 88 picoeuries/ gram of sand.
.The 95/95 upper limit for radioactivity is 120.1 picocuries/ gram of L
- sand, i.e., we are 95 percent confident that 95 percent of the populat' is less than 120.1 picocuries/ gram of sand.
The 95 percent confidence limit for the average radioactivity is 75.36-100.18 picocuries/ gram of sand. Also shown in the table are the average values for enrichment (2.7098 weight percent U-l 235) and specific activity of the uranium (1.6583 picocuries/ microgram uranium).
The uranium specific activity was calculated from the isotopic compositions of U-234, U-235, U-236 'and U-238 which were measured on the ANF-mass spectrometer.
The results of the data analysis carried out to determine the various sources of measurement error are summarized in Table 2.
Those results were determined by analysis of variance and are reported as absolute standard deviations in micrograms of uranium / gram of sand.
For comparison purposes, an absolute standard deviation of 10 units is equivalent to a relative error of about 20 percent.
For U.S. Testing, only an estimate of analytical plus sampling error could be made.
This is because each subsample was measured only once.
For ANF, who made duplicate uranium measurements on each subsample, estimates of both subsampling and analytical errors could be made.
The errors components for the two laboratories, while slightly different, are not statistically different.
As shown in Table 2, the analytical error for ANF is about 4 micrograms uranium / gram of sand, or about 8 percent relative.
The subsampling error for a given core sample, which was also estimated from the ANF data is about 6 micrograms uranium / gram, or about 12 percent relative.
The between grid locations error for data sets (U.S. Testing and ANF) is about 11.5 micrograms uranium / gram of sand, or about 21 percent relative.
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l' grid location is about 12 micrograms uranium / gram of~ sand or about 23 percent relative.
The standard deviation of the average value of the combined laboratory data for uranium concentration is 3.4 micrograms uranium / gram of l
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The standard deviation for the average value for picocuries/ gram of sand is 5.64 picoeuries/ gram of sand, or about 6 percent relative.
1 The analytical data for ANF analyses'are shown in Table 3 and the U.S. Testing results are shown in Table 4.
The combined results of the two laboratories are shown in Table 5.
The sample grid locations are shown in Figure 1.
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OF SA'iPLE RESULTS ANF Laboratory Property Result Units Average U 49.33 Micrograms U/ Gram of Sand Average U-235 2.7098 Weight Percent U-235 s
Average U Activity 1.6583 Picocuries/ Microgram U Average Sand Activity 81.80 Picocuries/ Gram of Sand U.S. Testina Laboratory Average U 56.52 Micrograms U/ Gram of Sand Average Sand Activity 93.72 Picocuries/ Gram of Sand Combined Results - ANF and U.S. Testina Average U 52.93 Micrograms U/ Gram of Sand Average Sand Activity 87.77 Picocuries/ Gram of Sand 95/95 Upper Limit 120.1 Picocuries/ Gram of Sand 95% Confidence Limit 75.36 - 100.18 Picocuries/ Gram of Sand of Average I
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TABLE 4 LEACHING PIT SAMPL'ES - U.S. TESTING ANALYSES I
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W,. v.. 520GP.c Federal. Register / Vol.' 4ts,"No. 205' / Friday, Octobe'r 23, 1981 / Notices '
w The Assistant Secretary finds that good Technical Position for administrator bya, assure that burial of radioactive' wastes'.
cause exists fornot publishing the '.
the Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch, a would not present an unacaponable..
su;splemen2 to the Puerto Rico State Plan rNvision of Fuel Cycle and Material.w health hazard at some future datec.d as a propoad change and making the e 'v, Office of NuclearMaterial A The deleted provisions of i 20.3041 Regional Adadnistrator's approval Sm y anii Safeguards.
previously permitted burial of up to 100 effective upon publication for the DATES: Comments on the options forU mililcuries of thorium or natural uranium followM reasons:
- lisposal or onsita storage of thorium or-at any one timeiwith a yearly limitation 1.The utandards are identical to the uranium are encouraged.Such '
of12 burials for each type of material at Federal standards which were comments will be considered in arty.
each site.The only disposal standards promulgated in accordance with Federal subsequent revision of t',e Branch -
specified were (1) burial at a minimum e
law meeting requirements for public Technical Position. Comments are due
. depth of four feet, and ("O successive.
participation.
December 22,1981.
burials separated py at least six feet.
2.* Die standards were adopted in gog,,-Comments receiv'ed siter the Thus a total of1.2 curies of these accordance with the procedural expiration data will be co sidered if it is -
requirement of State Law and further practical to do so,'but assurance of
' materials were pernitted to be disposed of each year by burial h a 12 foot byla.
participation would be unnecessary;~*
consideration cannot be given er. apt as to foot or larger plot of smund.
u The decision is effective October 23, comnets filed on or belcre that date.
Under the amended regulations;it Is' 1931.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:.
(Ocumbent on an app!" cant who wants iSoc.10 pub. I.81-596, a4 Stat.1 boa ps U.S C.
Ralph C.Page Chief, Uranium Fuel ~
to bury radioactive wastes to..
~W scrjj L! censing Branch, Division of Fuel Cycjo demonstrate that locd land burialis a and Material Safety. Offico of N Material Safety and Safeguards,yclear.,. preferable to oder disposal alternatives'-
Sigin ;l at New York City, New York, this -
- The evduation of the application tr.kes -
15th day of June 1981.
Roger A. Clark.
'Weshington, D.C. 20555, telephone 301-into account the fo!!owing information:
427-43E Types and quantities of mdterial to be ;
Regiona/Adminhimfor.
trk our.cs.was md ius-en sa Lml SUPPtIMENTARY INFORMATION buried
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- 1. Introduction
, Packaging of waste swuo coot ** s."
Buriallocation m
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Characteristics of burial site -
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e COMHISSION known today to be contaminated with Access restrictions to disposal site e
residual radioactive materials. Some are Endiation safety procedures during Advisory Committee on Reactor currently covered by NRClicenses.
disposal operations SafcDuards, Subcornmittee on Others were once licensed, but the
- Recordkeeping Callaway Plant; Location Change licenses to possess and use material Local burial restrictions,if any.
The ACRS Subcommittee on have expired. In many cartes, the total Callaway Plant will hold a meeting ora amount of contaminated soil is larEe, be For applications involving disposal of g
,g;g g g November 4 and 5,1981, at Se the activity concentrations of concentrations of thorium and uranium llOLIDAY INN-WEST,1900 M0 Drive radioactive matenals are believed Southwest Columbia,MOInstead of the sufficiently low to justify their disposal
[other than concentrations not l h!!an Inn.
on privately owned lands or storage exceeding EPA cleanup standardsl, the Noth:o of tids meeting was pub!!shed onsite rather than their transport to a tuatters of principat importance are:
in the federal Register on October 10, licensed radioactive materials dispont Concentrations of thorium and uranium 1981 (4fi FR 51329), and all other items (commercial) site. In many instances (eitherin secular equilibr*"m with rem 91u the same except for the location packaging and transporting these wastes their daughters or without daughters chang'e as indicated above.
to a licensed disposal site would be too present) costly and not justified from the Volume of contaminated soll Dated: Ociot er to.1982.
standpoints of risk to the public health Costs for offsite and onsite disposal luba Co lloyle, or cost-benefit. Furthero, ore, because of Availability of offsite burial spuca Advisory Comadtsca ManosementOfficer, the total volume of these wastes, limited Disposal site characteristics pu tw. ei-w:u s.i a w.a.ei; e as mi commercial waste disposal capacity.
Depth of burial and accessibility of n uno coor n e ce-u and restrictions placed on receipt of buried ;;astes long-lived wastes at commercial sites,it. State and local government views
(,",*"", # '"",.h rciall w k? vel IL Branch Technical Position Disposal or Onsite Storage of Thorium gcg or Uranium Wastes From Past waste disposal sites..
There are five acceptable options for Operauons Effective January 2fl.1981, NRC disposal or onsite storage of thorium.
Accncy: Nuclear Regulatory regulations in 10 CFR 20, Standards for and uranium contaminated wastes.
Commission (NitC).
Protection AgM ut Radiation",were Applict.tions for dispoaul'or storage will r.CTION:DiscubSlon of options for NRC amended (45 FR 71761-71762) to delete be approved if the guidelines discussed rippmval of applications for disposal or i 20.3&l which provided general under any optien are met. Applications onsite storage of thorium or uranium authority for disposal of radioact3ve for other methods of disposal may be wastes: interim use and public commem. materials by burialin soll. Under the submitted and these will be evaluated amended regulations, licensees must on their own merits.
scuMAny:This notice discusses five apply for and obtain specific NRC 1.Disposalof acceptablylow options for NRC approval of disposal or approval to dispose of rad.oactive concentrations (which meet epa onsite r.torage or thurium or uranium materials in this manner under the cleanup standards) of natural thorium wastem from past nuclear operations.
provisions oi to CFR 20.302. A case by-with daughters in secular equilibrium,
'Ibe options are contained in a Dranch case review was believed needed to depleted or enriched uranium, and
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, 2. Disposal of low concentrations of W equibbrium with no restriction on burial containing daughters not at secular natural uranium ores, with all daughtersN'M s
in equilibrium. when buried under 7-me thod.
equilibrium can be calculated on a case-Under this option, the concantiations by-ca'se basis using the applicable prescribed conditions in area zonEforM of natural thorium and depleted or isotopic activities data..
Industrial use and the recorded title..g
- 2. Disposal of certain low documents are amended to sute that the n enriched uranium wastes are set concentrations of natural thorium with specified land contains buried c N.E.g sufficiently low that no member of the public is expected te receive a radiation daughters in secular equilibrium and radioactive materials and are > ~.
dose commitment from the disposed depleted or enriched uranium with no conditioned in a manner acceptable - M i
materials in excess of 1 millitad per year daughters present when buried under under state law to impose a covenant i hd
,, running with the land that the spe to the lung or 3 millitada per year to the prescribed conditions with no land may not be used for residential dy bone from inhalation and ingestion, subsequent land use restrl::tions and no-building. (There is no continuing NRC M under any foreseeable use of the -
contin,uing NRC licensing of the Disposalwillbe approvedif theburial$j licensing of the material.).
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- matenal, material or property. These radiation Under this option the concentrations -
dose guidehnes were recommened by of natural thorium and uranium are set burial at a minbrium of 4 feet) are met.M@
criteria outlined in option 2 (including.
the Environmental protection Agency _. sufficiently low so that no member of i (epa) for protection against the public wdl receive a radiption dose Depending upon local soil '.
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transuranium elements present in the exceeding those discussed under option. characteristics, burials at depths greater J 7 environment as a resuh of unplanned 1 when the wastes are buned in an,
than 4 feet may be required. In order to Q contamination j42 FR 60956-60959). In hpproved manner absent intrusion into assure protection against radon 222 addition, the concentrations are the burial grounds.This option will releases (daughter in decay chain oil i M sufficier_tly low so that no individual require establishing prescribed uranium 238 and uranium 234) it is ' dM may receive un external dose in e'xcess conditions f or disposal in the license, necessary that the recorded title
' ! '.4 of 10 microroentgens per hour above such as depth and distribution of documents be amended to state in the N'i IM background.This is compatible with material, to mimmize the likelihood of permanent land records that no guidelines epa proposed as cleanup intrusion. Durial will be permitted only if residential building should be permitte'd %
standards for inactive uranium It can be demonstrated that the buried over specified areas of land where
- Id~2 processina sites (46 FR 2556-25GJ).
materials will be stabilized in place,te. natural uranium ore residues (U-238
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and For natural uranium ores having not be transported away from the si plus U-234)in concentrations exceedin8 '4 J daughters in equilibrium, the wd. Acceptability of the site for disposal 10 pCi/gm has been buried. Industrial l depend on topogra hical, building is acceptable so long as the Vf.[-
concentration limit is equal to that set by the EPA (46 FR 255G-2563) for ge log cal hydrological and concentration of buried material does.
radium-226 (i.e. 5 pCi/gm. !ncluding meteorologicalcharacteristics of the not exceed 40 pCi/gm of uranium (Le.,
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background) and its decay products.
site. At a mmimum, burial depth will be Ra-220 shall not exceed 20 pCL/gm). -
The concentrations specified below
- 4. Disposal of land-use limited are believed appropriate to apply. It is n t) a r
1 concentrations of natural thorium or expected, however, that currently the burial ground, no member of the natural uranium svith daughters in licensed operations will be, conducted in public willlikely receive a dose in secular equihbrium and depleted or such a manner as to trinimize the excess fo 170 miliirems to a critical enriched uranium without daughters pu,sibility of soll contamination and organ. An ave; age dose not exceeding present when buried under prescribed when such occurs the contamination 170 millirems to the whole body for all conditions in areas zoned for industrial wdl be reduced to levels as low as members of a general population is use and the recorded title documents are t ensonably achievable, reco mended byinternationaland amended to state that the land contains.
national radiation expert bodies tolimit buried radioactive material and are poptdation doses. With respect to conditioned m a manner acceptable limiting doses to individual body organs, under state law to impose a covenant cone.+
u$[m the concentrations are suffic!ently low
. running with land that the land (1) may that no individual will receive a dose in not be excavated below stated depths in hwem u.own (wm e. Twm> v an excess of 170 millirems to any organ specified areas ofland unless cleared by o 7.T, 7v'f *f**"' *"" * ***""" _
$ from exposure to natural thorium, appropriate health authorities. [2] may e aeo u,.w m depleted uranium or enriched uranium.
not be used for residential or industrial he<= we o.
tu.no r. u-ne a a The average acth ity concentration of structures over specified areas where ce-we s ai no a wwn radioactive material that may be buried to under this option in the case of natural radioactive materials in concentrations l
The analysis upon which the Branch thorium (Th-232 plus Th-228) is 50 pCi/
higher than specified in options 2 and 3 I
l Technical position is based is available gm. If all daughters are present and in are buried, and (3) may not be used for l
for inspection at the Commission's equilibrium; for enriched uranium it is agricultural purposes in the specified I
public Document Room at 1717 H St..
100 pCi/gm if the uranium is soluble and areas. (There is no continuing NRC N.W., Washington. D.C.
250 pCi/gm if insoluble; for depleted licensing of the disposal site.)
The concentrations specified under urunium it is 100 pCi/gm if the uranium Under thb option, conditions of burial this option may be compared with is soluble and 300 pCi/gm if insoluble.
will be such that no member of the returally occurring thorium and uranium Natural uranium ores containing radium public will receive radiation doses in ore concentrations of 1.3 pCi/gm in 220 and its daughters are not included excess of those discussed under option 1 i;;neous rock und uranium under this option, because of possible absent intrusion into the burial ground.
cunt entrations of 120 pCi/gm in Florida radon 2P2 emanations and resultant Criteria for disposal under these phm; bate rock and SHO pCi/gm in higher than acceptable exposure of conditions is predicated upon the Tennessee bituminous shale.
Individuals in private residences if assumption that intentional intrusion is Concentration limits for nat thorium houses were b iilt over buried materials.
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Federal Register / Vol. 40. No. 205 / Friday, October 23, 1981 / Notices 52003 in land doct ments of record not to the availability of an appropriate OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES cxcavate below burls! depths in disposal site.
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE specified areas of land without When concentrations exceed those clearance by heulth authorities; not to specified in option 4 long term disposcl Resolution of Complaint of Price-construct resider.ti.d or industrial other than at a licenhed disposal site Undercutting of Subsidized Cheese building on the site; and not to use will not normally be n viable option imports specified areas ofland for agricultural under the previsions of10 CFR 20.302. In On October 1,1981, the United States purposes. Because of Ns, we believe it such cases, the thorium and uranium Trade Representative meeived a letter appropriate to apply a maximum critical may be permitted to be stored onsite from the Secretary of Agriculture organ exposure limit of 500 millirems per tmder an NRC license until a suitable informing him of the Secretary's finding year to thorium and uranium buried method of disposalis found. License that imported Grade A Swiss type under this restriction instead of170 conditions will require thut radiatien cheese produced in Finiand has been millirems as used in options 2 and 3. In doses not exceed those specified in 10 offered for sale in the United States at addition, any exposure to such matenals CFR Part 20 and be maintained as low duty. paid wholesale prices which are is likely to be more transient than assumed (essentially continual as reasonably acidevable five cents per pound less than the exposure) under those options. These Befo e approving an application to domestic wholesale market price of two factors combine to increase the dispose of thorit"n or uranium under similar cheese produced in the United Statu activity concentration limits calculated options 2,3, or 4, NRC will solicit the in accordance with Section 702kV) under option 2 by about 10. Thus, the vicW of appropriate State health of the Trade Agreements Act of 1d79 average concentration that may be officials within the State in which the f the Act) (19 U.S.C.1202 note), the Office buried under this option for thorium disposal would be made.
of the United States Trade (Th-232 plus Th-220]is 500 pCi/gm if all Dated at Silver Spring. Maryland this 19th Representative notified Finland of the daughters are present and an day of October.1981.
price undercutting determination made equilibrium; for enriched uranium it is Richaro C. CunninE am, by the Secretary of Agriculture, h
a d 25 } I f1 olubl Diwctor. Division offuel Cyde andMoterial requested that corrective action be defileled uran um it is 2000 PCi/Em if the
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assurances concermng the commitments uranium is soluble and 3000 pCi/gm if made in the Arrangement Between the insoluble.
pm n m,c,q United States and Finland Concerning With respect to natural uranium with 8 *' CN *** 'T Chee6e.
daughters present and in equilibrium, On October 14.1981. Finland notified the concentration that may be batied the United States Trade Representative under this option is 200 pCi/gm of U-238 OFFICE OF PERSONNEL that measures have been taken to plus U-234,i.e.,100 pCi/gm Ra-226.This MANAGEMENT casure that the duty-paid wholesale concentration is based on a limited price ofimported Grade A Swiss type exposure of 2.4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> per day to limit the Postponement of Applicaten Deadline cheese produced in Fidand will not be radon dose to less than 0.5 working level for Fund-Raising Priviletjes Among less than the domestic wholesale market month (WLM) which is equivalent to Federal Employees by Privste price of similar cheese produced in the continuous exposure to 0.02 workinF Voluntary Organizations United States. In addition, Finland gave level (WL). Depending upon local soil charactenstics, burials at depths greater Section 5.43 of the.. Manual on i%,-
assurance that it will respect the price than 4 feet may be required.
Raising Within the Federal'aervice for commitments in the Arrang! nland has ement. Since the above notification by Ii Voluntary Health and Wufare d
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