U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management Summary Report of 2007 Waste Processing Technical Exchanges and Workshops.

摘要

Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is responsible for the cleanup of the environmental legacy of the Nation's nuclear weapons program. The waste processing part of this mission includes (1) treatment and disposition of high-level waste (HLW), and (2) transportation and disposal of low-level waste (LLW), transuranic waste (TRU), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and other nuclear materials. A large majority of these wastes and facilities are unique to DOE, such that waste treatment is often first-of-a-kind and unprecedented in scope and complexity. As a result, the technologies required to disposition these wastes must be developed from scratch or may require significant reengineering to adapt to EMs needs. Waste processing challenges have been classified into seven categories as follows: Safe Storage, Waste Retrieval, Waste Pretreatment, Waste Treatment and Stabilization, Tank Closure, Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Challenging Nuclear Materials.