Nuclear Waste Blending Proposal Could Violate Superfund Cleanup Policy

摘要

Activists are raising concerns that an industry proposal to blend two classes of radioactive waste to form a less potent mixture that could be disposed at facilities subject to less stringent regulation could create new opportunities for human exposures and might violate an EPA Superfund policy that discourages dilution of waste as a means of meeting regulatory requirements.rnEnergySolutions Inc., the operators of a Utah disposal facility for Class A low level radioactive waste (LLRW) -the least potent class of LLRW-are urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to allow them to blend Class B and C LLRW - two more potent classes of LLRW - in order to form a Class A mixture that could be disposed at theirrnfacility.