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Progress in Defense High-Level Waste disposal
D.D. Wodrich, E.A. Bracken
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Abstract
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is making good progress in its program to dispose of Defense High-Level Waste (DHLW) stored at the Savannah River Laboratory in South Carolina; Hanford Site in Washington; and Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho. The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at Savannah River is more than 65% complete, the Hanford Site has issued its Environmental Impact Statement on disposal alternatives, and Idaho is developing disposal strategy. A decision has been made to dispose of DHLW in the civilian geologic repositories being developed as part of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), and the waste acceptance process has been defined. 5 refs., 5 figs., 1 tab.