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Management of Heavy Isotopes in the DOE Complex.

DE2004829572

Publication Date	2002
Personal Author	Canon, R.; Croff, A.; Boyd, L.
Page Count	12
Abstract	Currently each Department of Energy (DOE) Program office manages its own nuclear materials through activities such as production, processing, storage, transportation, and disposition. However, recognizing the need to strengthen its strategic approach to the integrated life-cycle management of nuclear materials, DOE established the Nuclear Materials Management Stewardship Initiative (NMMSI) in January 2000. The NMMSI's first visible product was the Integrated Nuclear Material Management Plan in which it was generally recommended that DOE take a cross-cutting look at managing its nuclear materials, and specifically recommended that four Nuclear Material Management Groups (NMMGs) be formed. These groups were established to facilitate management of nuclear materials for which DOE has or may have responsibility, including many presently not in DOE's direct control. One of these NMMGs, the Heavy Isotope Management Group (HIMG) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Dec ember 2000, to facilitate management of (1) actinide and their decay products (except sealed sources) and (2) isotopically enriched stable and radioactive isotopes except uranium and lithium, but excluding thorium, uranium, spent fuel, and weapons or reactor grade plutonium which are addressed by other NMMGs. The primary disposition options have been to facilitate reuse of valuable heavy isotopes by matching custodians of unwanted materials with other users that seek such materials for new applications. This approach has the dual advantages of avoiding custodian disposal costs plus cost to the user of obtaining newly produced material. The HIMG has also prepared issue papers on neptunium and americium/curium that identify the resources, potential uses, and disposal pathways for the materials across the DOE Complex. In the future the HIMG expects to comprehensively identify the status of the U.S. heavy isotope inventory, prepare additional issue papers and plans charting the future of this inventory, and to facilitate execution of the plan.
Keywords	Nuclear materials management Isotopes US DOE Actinides Radioactive materials Neptunium Americium Curium Radioactive waste processing Radioactive waste storage Radioactive waste management Daughter products
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Oak Ridge National Lab., TN.; Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Prepared in cooperation with Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN. Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200511

Management of Heavy Isotopes in the DOE Complex.

Management of Heavy Isotopes in the DOE Complex.
DE2004829572

Publication Date	2002
Personal Author	Canon, R.; Croff, A.; Boyd, L.
Page Count	12
Abstract	Currently each Department of Energy (DOE) Program office manages its own nuclear materials through activities such as production, processing, storage, transportation, and disposition. However, recognizing the need to strengthen its strategic approach to the integrated life-cycle management of nuclear materials, DOE established the Nuclear Materials Management Stewardship Initiative (NMMSI) in January 2000. The NMMSI's first visible product was the Integrated Nuclear Material Management Plan in which it was generally recommended that DOE take a cross-cutting look at managing its nuclear materials, and specifically recommended that four Nuclear Material Management Groups (NMMGs) be formed. These groups were established to facilitate management of nuclear materials for which DOE has or may have responsibility, including many presently not in DOE's direct control. One of these NMMGs, the Heavy Isotope Management Group (HIMG) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Dec ember 2000, to facilitate management of (1) actinide and their decay products (except sealed sources) and (2) isotopically enriched stable and radioactive isotopes except uranium and lithium, but excluding thorium, uranium, spent fuel, and weapons or reactor grade plutonium which are addressed by other NMMGs. The primary disposition options have been to facilitate reuse of valuable heavy isotopes by matching custodians of unwanted materials with other users that seek such materials for new applications. This approach has the dual advantages of avoiding custodian disposal costs plus cost to the user of obtaining newly produced material. The HIMG has also prepared issue papers on neptunium and americium/curium that identify the resources, potential uses, and disposal pathways for the materials across the DOE Complex. In the future the HIMG expects to comprehensively identify the status of the U.S. heavy isotope inventory, prepare additional issue papers and plans charting the future of this inventory, and to facilitate execution of the plan.
Keywords	Nuclear materials management Isotopes US DOE Actinides Radioactive materials Neptunium Americium Curium Radioactive waste processing Radioactive waste storage Radioactive waste management Daughter products
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Oak Ridge National Lab., TN.; Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Prepared in cooperation with Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN. Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200511