Download or read book Management of Heavy Isotope in the DOE Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently each Department Of Energy (DOE) Program office manages its own nuclear materials through activities such as production, processing, storage, transportation, and disposition. However, recognizing the need to strengthen its strategic approach to the integrated life-cycle management of nuclear materials, DOE established the Nuclear Materials Management Stewardship Initiative (NMMSI) in January 2000. The NMMSI's first visible product was the Integrated Nuclear Material Management Plan in which it was generally recommended that DOE take a cross-cutting look at managing its nuclear materials, and specifically recommended that four Nuclear Material Management Groups (NMMGs) be formed. These groups were established to facilitate management of nuclear materials for which DOE has or may have responsibility, including many presently not in DOE's direct control. One of these NMMGs, the Heavy Isotope Management Group (HIMG) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Dec ember 2000, to facilitate management of (a) actinide and their decay products (except sealed sources) and (b) isotopically enriched stable and radioactive isotopes except uranium and lithium, but excluding thorium, uranium, spent fuel, and weapons or reactor grade plutonium which are addressed by other NMMGs. Despite its short duration and relatively limited funding, the HIMG has facilitated the disposition of heavy isotopes from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). The primary disposition options have been to facilitate reuse of valuable heavy isotopes by matching custodians of unwanted materials with other users that seek such materials for new applications. This approach has the dual advantages of avoiding custodian disposal costs plus cost to the user of obtaining newly produced material. The HIMG has also prepared issue papers on neptunium and americium/curium that identify the resources, potential uses, and disposal pathways for the materials across the DOE Complex. In the future the HIMG expects to comprehensively identify the status of the U.S. heavy isotope inventory, prepare additional issue papers and plans charting the future of this inventory, and to facilitate execution of the plan.
Download or read book Managing Critical Isotopes Weaknesses in DOE s Management of Helium 3 Delayed the Federal Response to a Critical Supply Shortage written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nuclear Weapons Complex written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the National Research Council examines problems arising throughout government-owned, contractor-operated facilities in the United States engaged in activities to build nuclear weapons. The book draws conclusions about and makes recommendations for the health and safety of the nuclear weapons complex and addresses pressing environmental concerns. In addition, the book examines the future of the complex and offers suggestions for its modernization. Several explanatory appendixes provide useful background information on the functioning of the complex, criticality safety, plutonium chemistry, and weapons physics.
Download or read book Improving the Scientific Basis for Managing DOE s Excess Nuclear Materials and Spent Nuclear Fuel written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production of nuclear materials for the national defense was an intense, nationwide effort that began with the Manhattan Project and continued throughout the Cold War. Now many of these product materials, by-products, and precursors, such as irradiated nuclear fuels and targets, have been declared as excess by the Department of Energy (DOE). Most of this excess inventory has been, or will be, turned over to DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM), which is responsible for cleaning up the former production sites. Recognizing the scientific and technical challenges facing EM, Congress in 1995 established the EM Science Program (EMSP) to develop and fund directed, long-term research that could substantially enhance the knowledge base available for new cleanup technologies and decision making. The EMSP has previously asked the National Academies' National Research Council for advice for developing research agendas in subsurface contamination, facility deactivation and decommissioning, high-level waste, and mixed and transuranic waste. For this study the committee was tasked to provide recommendations for a research agenda to improve the scientific basis for DOE's management of its high-cost, high-volume, or high-risk excess nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuels. To address its task, the committee focused its attention on DOE's excess plutonium-239, spent nuclear fuels, cesium-137 and strontium-90 capsules, depleted uranium, and higher actinide isotopes.
Download or read book Environmental Assessment for the U 233 Disposition Medical Isotope Production and Building 3019 Complex Shutdown at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the proposed action evaluated in this environmental assessment (EA) is the processing of uranium-233 ([sup 233]U) stored at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other small quantities of similar material currently stored at other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites in order to render it suitable for safe, long-term, economical storage. The [sup 233]U is stored within Bldg. 3019A, which is part of the Bldg. 3019 Complex. The location of the Bldg. 3019 Complex is shown on Fig. 1.1. Additionally, the proposed action would increase the availability of medical isotopes needed for research and treatment and place the Bldg. 3019 Complex in safe and stable shutdown for transfer to the DOE program for decontamination and decommissioning (D & D). DOE has determined that there is no programmatic use for the [sup 233]U currently in storage at ORNL other than as a possible source of medical isotopes. Since [sup 233]U is a special nuclear material, continued long-term storage of the ORNL inventory in its current configuration represents a significant financial liability for DOE. Continued long-term storage in Bldg. 3019A would require major capital upgrades and retrofits to critical facility systems that have deteriorated due to aging or that may not meet current standards. Storing the material in its current form requires significant annual operating expenses to meet the material-handling requirements and to provide protection against nuclear criticality accidents or theft of the material. The ORNL inventory of [sup 233]U represents most of the readily available source of thorium-229 ([sup 229]Th) in the Western Hemisphere. Actinum-225 ([sup 225]Ac) and its daughter product, bismuth-213 ([sup 213]Bi), are isotopes in the decay chain of [sup 233]U/[sup 229]Th that are showing significant promise for ongoing cancer research, including clinical trials for treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia. These isotopes are also being explored for treatment of other cancers of the lungs, pancreas, and kidneys. Figure 1.2 shows a simplified example of the [sup 233]U decay chain. DOE action is needed to (1) render the [sup 233]U material suitable for safe, long-term, economical storage eliminating the need for safeguards, security and nuclear criticality controls; (2) provide isotopes for medical research for providing treatment for several types of cancer; and (3) remove the [sup 233]U material, allowing the building to be deactivated and transferred to the D & D program, which would reduce DOE's landlord costs and meet the requirements of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 97-1, which addresses the safe storage of [sup 233]U (DNFSB 1997). Recommendation 97-1 describes actions that the DNFSB considers necessary to ensure the safe storage of [sup 233]U-bearing materials in the interim and the longer term.
Download or read book Isotopes for Medicine and the Life Sciences written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radioactive isotopes and enriched stable isotopes are used widely in medicine, agriculture, industry, and science, where their application allows us to perform many tasks more accurately, more simply, less expensively, and more quickly than would otherwise be possible. Indeed, in many casesâ€"for example, biological tracersâ€"there is no alternative. In a stellar example of "technology transfer" that began before the term was popular, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors has supported the development and application of isotopes and their transfer to the private sector. The DOE is now at an important crossroads: Isotope production has suffered as support for DOE's laboratories has declined. In response to a DOE request, this book is an intensive examination of isotope production and availability, including the education and training of those who will be needed to sustain the flow of radioactive and stable materials from their sources to the laboratories and medical care facilities in which they are used. Chapters include an examination of enriched stable isotopes; reactor and accelerator-produced radionuclides; partnerships among industries, national laboratories, and universities; and national isotope policy.
Download or read book The DOE FY 99 Budget Authorization Request H R 1806 to Provide for the Consolidation of the DOE Offices of Fossil Energy Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency S 965 to Amend Title II of the Hydrogen Future Act of 1996 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Programmatic EIS for Accomplishing Expanded Civilian Nuclear Energy Research and Development and Isotope Production Missions in the United States Including the Role of the Fast Flux Test Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Office of Environmental Management Technical Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isotope Production And Applications In The 21st Century Proceedings Of The 3rd International Conference On Isotopes written by Nigel R Stevenson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-10-09 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third International Conference on Isotopes focused on the theme of “Isotope Production and Applications in the 21st Century” and included presentations by several eminent experts in this field. The three central subjects — Isotopes in Medicine, Industry and the Environment — were supplemented by presentations on the latest developments in isotope production and synthesis, research into radiopharmaceuticals, applications in agriculture, analytical applications, radiocarbon dating, AMS and PET. Various views on the future directions for producers and users of isotopes were considered at this multi-disciplinary meeting.
Download or read book Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Managing the Nation s Commercial High level Radioactive Waste written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Managing the nation s commercial high level radioactive waste written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Demanding Results written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
