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West Valley Demonstration Project Milestone Achieving Certification to Ship Waste to the Nevada Test Site.

DE2004827657

Publication Date	2002
Personal Author	Jackson, J. P.; Pastor, R. S.
Page Count	20
Abstract	The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) has successfully pretreated and vitrified nearly all of the 600,000 gallons of liquid high-level radioactive waste that was generated at the site of the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States. Low-level waste (LLW) generated during the course of the cleanup effort now requires disposal. Currently the WVDP only ships Class A LLW for off-site disposal. It has been shipping Class A wastes to Envirocare of Utah, Inc. since 1997. However, the WVDP may also have a future need to ship Class B and Class C waste, which Envirocare is not currently authorized to accept. The Nevada Test Site (NTS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility, can accept all three waste classifications. The WVDP set a goal to receive certification to begin shipping Class A wastes to NTS by 2001. Formal certification/approval was granted by the DOE Nevada Operations Office on July 12, 2001. This paper discusses how the WVDP contractor, West Valley Nuclear Services Company (WVNSCO), completed the activities required to achieve NTS certification in 2001 to ship waste to its facility. The information and lessons learned provided are significant because the WVDP is the only new generator receiving certification based on an NTS audit in January 2001 that resulted in no findings and only two observations--a rating that is unparalleled in the DOE Complex.
Keywords	Certification Transportation of hazardous materials Radioactive wastes Radioactive waste management Radioactive waste disposal High-level radioactive wastes Low-level radioactive wastes Nuclear fuels
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	West Valley Nuclear Services Co., Inc., NY.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200512

West Valley Demonstration Project Milestone Achieving Certification to Ship Waste to the Nevada Test Site.

West Valley Demonstration Project Milestone Achieving Certification to Ship Waste to the Nevada Test Site.
DE2004827657

Publication Date	2002
Personal Author	Jackson, J. P.; Pastor, R. S.
Page Count	20
Abstract	The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) has successfully pretreated and vitrified nearly all of the 600,000 gallons of liquid high-level radioactive waste that was generated at the site of the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States. Low-level waste (LLW) generated during the course of the cleanup effort now requires disposal. Currently the WVDP only ships Class A LLW for off-site disposal. It has been shipping Class A wastes to Envirocare of Utah, Inc. since 1997. However, the WVDP may also have a future need to ship Class B and Class C waste, which Envirocare is not currently authorized to accept. The Nevada Test Site (NTS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility, can accept all three waste classifications. The WVDP set a goal to receive certification to begin shipping Class A wastes to NTS by 2001. Formal certification/approval was granted by the DOE Nevada Operations Office on July 12, 2001. This paper discusses how the WVDP contractor, West Valley Nuclear Services Company (WVNSCO), completed the activities required to achieve NTS certification in 2001 to ship waste to its facility. The information and lessons learned provided are significant because the WVDP is the only new generator receiving certification based on an NTS audit in January 2001 that resulted in no findings and only two observations--a rating that is unparalleled in the DOE Complex.
Keywords	Certification Transportation of hazardous materials Radioactive wastes Radioactive waste management Radioactive waste disposal High-level radioactive wastes Low-level radioactive wastes Nuclear fuels
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	West Valley Nuclear Services Co., Inc., NY.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200512