Sampling plan for retrievably stored contact-handled transuranic waste at the Hanford Site

The Hanford Site generates and/or stores transuranic (TRU) waste generated by national defense programs. This waste is buried in trenches of several different designs or configurations and is also stored in above-ground interim storage areas. The US Atomic Energy Commission defined TRU waste as a separate waste category and declared that it must be stored in a form that was retrievable as comtamination-free packages. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a research and development facility designed to demonstrate the safe and environmentally acceptable disposal TRU waste from national defense programs. Disposal will consist of retrieving the waste and treating it as necessary in the Waste Receiving and Processing (WRAP) facility to certify it for shipment to WIPP. Treatment of hazardous waste components will also be required in WRAP. The goal of the program is to obtain the information needed to plan and design facilities and equipment required to retrieve, examine, treat, certify, and dispose of the retrievably stored CH-TRU waste. The program is divided into three phases; this document describes Phase 2 of the program. 7 refs., 4 figs., 6 tabs.