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Title
- Main Title Department of Energy's waste minimization program
Contributor
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Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.Contributor Type: OrganizationContributor Info: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Publisher
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Name: USDOE Office of Inspector General, Washington, DC (United States)Place of Publication: United States
Date
- Creation: 1991-09-01
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: Waste minimization, as mandated by the Congress, requires, the elimination or reduction of the generation of waste as its source, that is, before it can become waste. This audit was made to determine the adequacy of DOE's efforts to minimize the generation of waste. The audit emphasized radioactive and other hazardous waste generation at DOE's nuclear weapons production plants and design laboratories. We included waste minimization activities and actions that can be taken now, in contrast to the long-range weapons complex modernization effort. We reviewed waste minimization activities within the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs (DP), the Hazardous Waste Remedial Action Program Office, and the Waste Minimization Management Group (WMMG) in the Albuquerque Field Office. Waste minimization programs were examined in detail at the three largest nuclear weapons production facilities -- the Rocky Flats plant, which manufactures plutonium parts; the Y-12 facility, which produces uranium components; and the Savannah River site, which manufactures and loads tritium -- and two of DOE's weapons design laboratories, Los Alamos and Sandia.
- Physical Description: 27 pages
Subject
- Keyword: Us Aec
- Keyword: Weapons 052000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Management
- Keyword: Minimization
- Keyword: Remedial Action
- Keyword: Wastes
- Keyword: Cleaning
- Keyword: Regulations
- Keyword: Waste Disposal
- STI Subject Categories: 45 Military Technology, Weaponry, And National Defense
- Keyword: Alpha-Bearing Wastes
- Keyword: Recommendations
- Keyword: Rocky Flats Plant
- Keyword: Resource Recovery Acts
- STI Subject Categories: 450000 -- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense
- Keyword: Materials
- Keyword: Y-12 Plant
- Keyword: New Mexico
- Keyword: Hazardous Materials
- STI Subject Categories: 12 Management Of Radioactive And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities
- Keyword: Us Organizations
- Keyword: Radioactive Waste Management
- Keyword: Us Erda
- Keyword: Compliance Audits
- Keyword: Laws
- Keyword: Radioactive Wastes
- Keyword: National Organizations
- Keyword: Federal Region Vi
- Keyword: Savannah River Plant
- Keyword: Audits
- Keyword: Nuclear Weapons
- Keyword: Radioactive Waste Disposal
- Keyword: Management
- Keyword: Sandia Laboratories
- Keyword: Radioactive Materials
- Keyword: Decontamination
- Keyword: Waste Management
- Keyword: Us Doe
- Keyword: Administrative Procedures
- Keyword: Nuclear Facilities
- Keyword: North America
- Keyword: Los Alamos
- Keyword: Usa
- Keyword: Government Policies
- Keyword: Developed Countries
Source
- Other Information: Report to The Secretary
Collection
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Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical ReportsCode: OSTI
Institution
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Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents DepartmentCode: UNTGD
Resource Type
- Report
Format
- Text
Identifier
- Other: TI92000124
- Report No.: DOE/IG-0298
- DOI: 10.2172/5210983
- Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 5210983
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1056392
Note
- Display Note: OSTI