Nuclear Regulatory Commission radioactive waste facilities

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). 

USNRC. 1995b. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Requirements for transfer of low-level radioactive waste intended for disposal at licensed land disposal facilities and manifests. Code of Federal Regulations. 10 CFR 20, Appendix G. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Workshop Proceedings, 2010. Engineered Barrier Performance Related to Low Level Radioactive Waste, Decommissioning, and Uranium Mill Tailings Facilities, 148 p. 

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