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Los Alamos National Laboratory TRU waste sampling projects

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Description

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has begun characterizing transuranic (TRU) waste in order to comply with New Mexico regulations, and to prepare the waste for shipment and disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Sampling consists of removing some head space gas from each drum, removing a core from a few drums of each homogeneous waste stream, and visually characterizing a few drums from each heterogeneous waste stream. The gases are analyzed by GC/MS, and the cores are analyzed for VOC's and SVOC's by GC/MS and for metals by AA or AE spectroscopy. The sampling and examination projects are conducted in accordance with the ''DOE TRU Waste Quality Assurance Program Plan'' (QAPP) and the ''LANL TRU Waste Quality Assurance Project Plan,'' (QAPjP), guaranteeing that the data meet the needs of both the Carlsbad Area Office (CAO) of DOE and the ''WIPP Waste Acceptance Criteria, Rev. 5,'' (WAC)

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Available from INIS in electronic form and/or on microfiche ; Also available from OSTI as DE97003121; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
10 p.
Report number
LA-UR--96-4002

Conference

Title
Waste Management '97.
Dates
2-7 Mar 1997.
Place
Tucson, AZ (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
29006486
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; COMPLIANCE; CONTAINERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; SAFETY; SAMPLING; VAPORS; VOLATILE MATTER; WIPP
Descriptors DEC
FLUIDS; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; GASES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MATTER; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; STORAGE; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; WASTES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-970335--20.