Final Environmental Impact Statement: Supplement to ERDA-1538, December 1975. Double-Shell Tanks for Defense High-Level Radioactive Waste Storage

摘要

Proposed is the completion of construction and the operation of thirteen tanks for high-level radioactive liquid waste storage on an interim basis until long-term of final disposal of the wastes can be achieved. The scope of the EIS includes the examination of design alternatives for the tanks now under construction. The examination of the alternatives addressed in this EIS is in compliance with the September 29, 1979 directive of the US District Court for the District of Columbia (Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al., v. Secretary, Department of Energy, et al. (DDC Civ. No. 76-169)). The new facilities, now under construction, consist of thirteen 1.0 million gallon high-activity waste tanks and their auxiliaries. All thirteen tanks are being built in the 200 East Area of the Hanford Site. Impacts of the various design alternatives considered in this EIS are assessed on the basis of the effects of the various designs on tank durability, on the ease of waste retrieval from such tanks, on the choices (and on the timing of such choices) for a technology for long-term radioactive waste storage and final disposal, as well as on the environment in general. 75 refs., 38 figs., 13 tabs. (ERA citation 11:025429)