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GAO report describes cleanup progress at Moab Mill Site
A new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has disposed of more than 16 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste from the Moab Mill Site. While cleanup continues at the Cold War–era uranium ore processing site in southeastern Utah, a plan for the next phase of groundwater remediation is still needed, according to the GAO.
Donald J. Dudziak, R. A. Krakowski
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 32-55
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24347
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Induced radioactivity and afterheat in fusion reactor blanket structures and magnetic coils are essential inputs for environmental impact studies. These quantities have been calculated for a reference theta-pinch reactor (RTPR) and compared with results reported for other fusion reactors and typical fast fission reactors. Major indepen-dent variables considered in the RTPR analysis were structural material (Nb—1% Zr, V—20% Ti), 14.1-MeV neutron wall loading (0.2 to 6.7 MW/m2), operating time (1 to 20 yr) and time after shutdown (0 to 30 000 yr). For a given operating time large radioactivity contributions from 95Nb render higher [Ci/W(th)J and {Ci/[W(th)yr]} values at higher wall loadings and <1 yr after shutdown. At long times after shutdown this dependence is reversed and represents an advantage relative to long-term radwaste storage. Activity from V— 20% Ti is insensitive to wall loading or operating time. For either material, afterheat power densities are about two orders of magnitude lower than for fission reactors.