WHAT IS THE COST FOR DOE LOW-LEVEL WASTE DISPOSAL?

摘要

The DOE Office of Environmental Management is undertaking a comprehensive study of life-cycledisposal costs for its low-level and mixed low-level waste. This study is the most recent in a series ofanalyses the Department has conducted to answer questions about its policies, practices, and the costsof low-level waste disposal. It will address new questions generated by previous cost studies and willdiscuss opportunities for DOE to reduce the cost of low-level and mixed low-level waste disposal.With the recent publication of the Record of Decision for DOE’s Waste Management Program:Treatment and Disposal of Low-Level Waste and Mixed Low-Level Waste and the flexibility it offersDOE sites in choosing a disposal site, the DOE complex is now prepared to consider the implications oflife-cycle costs in implementing its waste disposal configuration. This next generation cost study willaddress uncertainties in disposal volumes at DOE’s regional disposal sites, costs of facility closure, andimpacts of long-term stewardship obligations in assessing DOE’s life-cycle disposal costs.