Low-Level Waste Characteristics
(compared to selected samples) |
| |
Ave. Concentration
(curies/ft3) |
Selected Samples
(curies/ft3) |
| Low-Level Waste: |
|
|
 Class A |
0.1 |
|
| Class B |
2 |
4.4 (NY Cintichem facil.) |
| Class C |
7 |
160 ( NY reactor avg.1) |
| Greater-than-C |
300 to 2,5002 |
|
| Transuranic Waste |
|
|
| Contact-handled |
0.57 |
|
| Remote-handled |
47 |
|
| Military High-Level Waste |
100 |
920 (Savannah River sludge) |
| |
|
3.7 (Hanford salt cake) |
| |
|
7,110 (Savannah River Glass,
projected) |
| Commercial Spent Fuel |
73,6503 |
|
|
|
| Source: A. Makhijani and S. Saleska, High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense, (Takoma Park, MD: IEER, 1992), p. 26. |
|
Notes:
1. Average Class C wastes from New York state's nuclear reactors.
2. The 300 figure is based on the 1985 inventory. The higher figure represents anticipated inventory in 2020, including some decommissioning wastes.
3. Based on average activity in all spent fuel at the end of 1989 and on overall fuel assembly dimensions.
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