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High-Level Waste Artifact to Analogue A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY THE MAGAZINE OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT AND FACILITY REMEDIATION MARCH/APRIL 2007 High-Level Waste Artifact to Analogue Also in this issue: • Power Plant Decommissioning Update • WM '06 Best Paper WMShow ’07 Winners Issue SOLUTIONS by PatentPatent# # 7073676 7073676 PatentPatent# # 7073676 7073676 Patent#’s 5098364, 5110005 LiftPac™ RailPac® Transliner® We manufacture packaging.We engineer solutions. OverPac PacTank® LSA/SCO Wraps (800) 272-2832 www.pactecinc.com Spill Berms · Bladder Bags · Dewatering Filters · Lift Bags · Railcar Liners and Tarps · Overpacks LSA/SCO Wraps · Container Liners · Tarpaulins Editorial Staff A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY Betsy Tompkins Publisher Advertising sales representatives Nancy J. 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Ali Yazdi by the American Nuclear Society. 2 Radwaste Solutions March/April 2007 A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY Volume 14, Number 2 March/April 2007 Wetlands management is now part of the continuing legacy of the old Fernald Feed Features Materials Production Center. The article beginning on page 54 looks at the role of public involvement in the Fernald site Cover Stories—High-Level Waste/Spent Fuel cleanup and restoration. Artifact to Analogue: Archeology of Arid Environments Points to Management Options for Yucca Mountain 22 Departments Archeology has a lot to tell us about the potential behavior of materials and structures during a high-level waste repository’s first 10 000 years. Editor’s Note 4 Comments on this issue Full Burnup Credit in Transport and Storage Casks— Benefits and Implementation 32 Headlines 6 Industry news Allowing for full burnup credit of spent nuclear fuel during transport can allow higher density packing of transport casks, leading to savings for high-capacity systems. Radwaste Solutions Subscription Information 15 Looking into the Yucca Mountain Controversy—A Book Review 44 Moving Up 76 A review of Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation’s High- People in the news Level Nuclear Waste. Index to Advertisers 77 ANS Membership Application 79 Other Feature It’s Business 81 A Decommissioning Wrapup: Commercial Reactor Contracts, business news, etc. Decommissioning Status in 2006 46 Calendar 83 The current status of the commercial reactor decommissioning projects in the United Meetings of interest States and the major milestones achieved over the past 12 months. On the Cover: Waste Management ’06 Best Papers What can a three thousand- Changing Public Participation at Fernald: Not an Easy (or Popular) Task 54 Fernald’s transition to the Office of Legacy Management will likely be more difficult year-old Egyptian glass than at other cleanup sites, in part because area stakeholders have 20 years already cosmetic bottle tell us about committed to this project. the potential performance of Science, Technology, and Workforce Innovations: Keys to a Successful D&D an underground nuclear waste of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant 60 repository? The article D&D work at PFP is met with innovative approaches based on new science and beginning on page 22 give us technology and also on the creativity and motivation of the workforce. some clues. (Photo copyright: British Museum, London) Meeting Reports Whatever Happened to TMI-2, and Other Nuclear Waste Issues 68 Next Issue: A report from the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. Low-Level Waste Waste in Its Proper Place 73 A report from the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. March/April 2007 Radwaste Solutions 3 Comments on this issue ▼ Department Editor’s Note Too Many Choices? Shortly after the November U.S. bearably stressful. Need a box of ce- elections, which put the Democratic real for breakfast? The typical West- Party in control of both houses of ern grocery store offers a whole aisle Congress for the first time in a dozen of cereal choices: corn flakes, oat- years, I asked a colleague what would meal, shredded wheat, Wheaties, be the impact of having Sen. Harry Chex, Cheerios, plain cereal, sugar- Reid of Nevada, the champion oppo- coated cereal, chocolate-flavored cold nent of the U.S. Department of En- cereal, maple-flavored hot cereal. ergy’s Yucca Mountain Project, serve How does one used to dealing with as the Senate Majority Leader. My one or two choices of cereal make a colleague replied that I was asking the selection from so many offerings? wrong question. So, does the prospect of reprocess- The real threat to the Yucca Moun- ing, for example, take away from the tain Project, my colleague continued, need for a geologic high-level waste was not a little high-level opposition repository? The most sensible answer at the congressional level. Rather, he would be that, no, reprocessing does- said, it was the sudden increase in the n’t remove the need for the reposito- number of alternatives to a high-lev- ry, although it may delay that need. el waste/spent fuel repository. He But in the case of Yucca Mountain, listed onsite spent fuel storage, cen- which has suffered from so many de- tralized spent fuel storage, spent fuel lays already, does the prospect of reprocessing, and the Global Nuclear even more delays sound the death Energy Partnership (GNEP) project, knell? Is that the fear of the people among others. Are we going to store who have already given up to a quar- Have We spent fuel for a while, or aren’t we? ter of a century to the project? Are we going to reprocess the back- Editorial writers can seem unbear- log of spent fuel, or aren’t we? Are we ably smug, sounding as if they have Lost Sight going to reprocess future spent fuel, all the answers, pretending to be the or aren’t we? It’s these questions, and voice of reason amidst the din of of Our the uncertainties surrounding them, chaos. In truth, we editorial writers he concluded, that give those in- don’t have all the answers—in some volved in the Yucca Mountain Proj- cases not even a single proposal.
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