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Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls, Inc., Survey Report - Fort Peck, Montana Pocatello, Idaho Sites, March 26, 1949. 

Fuel cycle technology demonstration The objective of this programme element is to verify the operability of the pyrometallurgical and fabrication systems on a production scale, and to quantify the economic potential of the IFR metal fuel cycle Comprehensive demonstration of all aspects of the fuel cycle technology under simulated commercial conditions had been scheduled to be cjirried out in the refurbished FCF at the ANL-Idaho site between 1994 and 1996, using spent IFR fuel discharged from the EBR-II reactor This... 

As of the mid-1990s all commercial phosphoms is manufactured at a few sites around the world. Significant production occurs in Idaho and Montana in the United States, in the Netherlands, in Kazakstan, and in China smaller production occurs in Prance, Russia, and India. A large amount of furnace capacity has been shut down worldwide because of cost pressure from electric power costs, phosphate derived from purified wet acid, and detergent phosphate bans legislated in the Western World. However, as of late 1995, additional production is stiU being brought on line in China. 

As of 1993—1994, over 70% of sulfuric acid production was not sold as such, but used captively to make other materials. At almost all large fertilizer plants, sulfuric acid is made on site, and by-product steam from these sulfur-burning plants is generally used for concentrating phosphoric acid ia evaporators. Most of the fertilizer plants are located ia Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, and North Carolina. In the production of phosphate fertilizers, the primary role of sulfuric acid is to convert phosphate rock to phosphoric acid and soHd calcium sulfates, which are removed by filtration. 

Low level waste from commercial facilities is buried on site. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has projected the activities and volumes of low level radioactive waste from all sources buried at commercial sites to the year 2000 using information from the Idaho National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory (INEEL) waste retrieval project and assuming that the waste disposal practices then used would continue into the future. The 20-year decayed 241Am and 243Am concentrations were estimated to be 380 and 230 pCi/m3 (14 and 8.5 Bq/m3), respectively (Kennedy et al. 1985). 

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Radioactive waste site Proposed NA... 

Superfund Site, Idaho Falls, ID Industrial Excess Landfill, Superfund Site, OH Industrial waste landfill Proposed NA... 

Wood duck, Aixsponsa northern Idaho 1986-87 kidneys reference site vs. near mining and smelting complex 0.13 (0.1-1.0) FW vs. 4.8 (1-20) FW 68... 

United States 1991-93 liver Wood duck, Aix sponsa Northern Idaho lead-contaminated area vs. reference site maximum values ... 

Coeur d Alene River Basin, Idaho vs. reference site feces Northern Idaho near mining and smelting complex 1987-89 dead or moribund vs. apparently healthy birds from reference site 800 DW (90th percentile was 2700 DW) vs. 2.1 DW 123... 

Mink, Mustela vison Idaho lead-contaminated site vs. reference site Liver 1981-82 1986-87... 

Henny, C.J., L.J. Blus, D.J. Hoffman, R.A. Grove, and J.S. Hatfield. 1991. Lead accumulation and osprey production near a mining site on the Coeur d Alene River, Idaho. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 21 415-424. 

World molybdenum production has increased from about 90 metric tons in 1900 — half from Australia and Norway, half from the United States — to 136 tons in 1906, 1364 in 1932 (an order of magnitude increase in 26 years), 10,909 in 1946, and 91,000 tons in 1973. Through the years, molybdenum has been produced in about 30 countries. In 1973, about 60% of the worldwide production was from the United States, 15% from Canada, 15% from the U.S.S.R. and China combined, and 10% from other nations — Chile, Japan, Korea, Norway, and Mexico (King et al. 1973). By 1979, the United States produced about 62% of the world production of 103,000 metric tons, and exported about half, chiefly to western Europe and Japan other major producers in 1979 were Canada, Chile, and the U.S.S.R. (Kummer 1980). In the United States, only three mines in Colorado account for almost 70% of domestic production. Other active molybdenum mining sites in North America are in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and California molybdenum reserves have also been proven in Idaho, Alaska, Pennsylvania, and British Columbia (Kummer 1980). About 65% of domestic molybdenum is recovered from ores rich in molybdenum the rest is a byproduct from ores of copper, tungsten, and uranium (Chappell et al. 1979). 

Soils from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) and two background sites in southern Idaho had geometric mean nickel concentrations of 11.8-23.4 ppm dry weight concentrations are significantly higher near INEL (Rope et al. 1988). The coal-fired steam plant that was constmcted at the laboratory in 1982-1983 may be responsible for the higher nickel concentrations. 

At the Bunker Hill Site in Kellogg, Idaho, treatment costs were approximately 0.005/gal of treated water or 25,000 a month (D202686, p. 1). The cost of the KB-1 was less than one tenth of a cent per liter of water treated. Product cost at the Wheal Jane Mine in the United Kingdom was less than 0.003/gal (D202868, p. 30 D202879, p. 1). 

Full-scale demonstrations of Pintail Systems, Inc. s, spent-ore bioremediation process have been conducted at a number of mine sites in the United States. The first full-scale demonstration of the process for cyanide detoxification in a spent-ore heap was performed at the Yellow Pine Mine near Yellow Pine, Idaho, in 1992. In addition, the technology has been used at sites in Mexico and Canada. This technology and several similar bioremediation processes are commercially available through the vendor. Pintail Systems, Inc., is also working with Sub-Surface Waste Management, Inc. (a subsidiary of U.S. Microbes, Inc.), to further apply its bioremediation technologies in the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia. 

At the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), the basic system installation cost was about 3.47/ft, for a total cost of about 34,700. This figure does not include site characterization and monitoring costs (D192921, p. 10). 

In a 1997 estimate provided by the vendor, the cost of permeable barrier installed during one year that operates for approximately 20 years would be about 682,000. This estimate was prepared for the Denver Creek site, in the Coeur d Alene district of Idaho. The apatite was assumed to cover a depth of about 5 yd, and the emplacement trench was assumed to be approximately 30 yd across and 8 yd thick. The flow rate through the site was estimated to be 2 ft /sec. For this estimate, design costs were determined to be 48,000 feasibility study costs 110,000 health and safety costs were estimated to be 112,000 the cost of the apatite was placed at 210,000 and monitoring well emplacement and operation, including samples... 

Idaho Coeur d Alene River 1986-87 Sediments Vicinity of smelter Reference site... 

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