Radioactive waste inventory at the Maxey Flats nuclear waste burial site

The Radioactive Shipment Records for the Maxey Flats low level nuclear waste burial site near Morehead, Kentucky, have been made computer accessible. The correction of mistakes in the records is described. The waste inventory of the site as on the records is calculated. Inventory is given by several classifications: activity for site and burial pits; accumulated activity by isotopes; waste volume. Several of the activities are given as deposited, at the present time and some are calculated as they will be in the future. Some comparisons are made with other methods of inventory accounting. It is shown that present records are not completely reliable; possible reasons for mismatching are postulated. (author)