Nuclear Materials
Creators
Description
Questions related to an earlier GAO report on the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, Colorado, are answered in this fact sheet. GAO findings include: (1) Sandia National Laboratory's risk analyses associated with shipping plutonium under the four alternatives did not consider potential human error because a Sandia staff member believed that it would not affect the risk calculations, (2) the Department of Energy's container used for transporting oxides has not been tested for durability since it was put into service in 1984, (3) radiological risks to Rocky Flats workers would continue because the relocation alternatives would not eliminate all operations involving plutonium at the plant, and (4) waste and scrap materials would continue to be generated from existing operations
Availability note (English)
Available from US General Accounting Office, PO Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877.Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- US General Accounting Office.
- Imprint Place
- Gaithersburg, MD (USA)
- Imprint Pagination
- 196 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21006560
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S42: ENGINEERING; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINERS; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROCKY FLATS PLANT; SAFETY; TRANSPORT; WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS