Waste management and aerojet

Aerojet, a subsidiary of GenCorp. performed depleted uranium manufacturing operations in Compton, California, from 1977 to 1986, under a radioactive materials license from the State of California. The facility was successfully decontaminated and the license terminated in 1988, and the facility returned to the lease holder for unrestricted use. Waste management was an integral part of the decontamination operation. Criteria for the release of waste were included in the license amendment for decontamination and the technical specifications for the decontamination contractor. By coordinating decontamination with waste management objectives, the volume of radioactive LLW was limited to about 300 cubic meters and about 900 cubic meters of waste was released to municipal and hazardous waste landfills. In this paper procedures used to limit radioactive waste and to segregate the waste are presented