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DOE nuclear cleanup costs, schedule delays continue to rise, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management faces significant cost increases, schedule delays, and data management issues in completing nuclear waste cleanup projects, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
R. C. Routson, G. S. Barney, R. M. Smith
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 100-106
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32757
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Past sorption studies evolved with time from generic, to waste specific, to empirical waste-specific/site-specific studies. Current sorption studies are site specific based on a radionuclide transport soil prop erties model (PERCOL). Radionuclide sorption is treated in the model PERCOL by the use of labora tory developed empirical/statistical equations that predict sorption as a function of groundwater chem istry. Analyses involve average sorption equations measured for 21 identified Hanford Separation Areas sediment types. Statistical analysis of 90Sr, I37Cs, and 60Co sorption for the 21 sediment types required 63 sorption equations.