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Table 5.3-5 Low-level waste volumes and shipments by generator sitea under Alternative 3
10-year Volume Projection


Generator Site

(m3)b

(yd3)

Number

of Shipmentsd

Aberdeen Proving Ground 790 1,033 21
Ames Laboratory 1,232 1,611 32
Argonne National Laboratory-East 11,265 14,734 296
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 9,775 12,788 257
Brookhaven National Laboratory 3,264 4,269 86
Energy Technology Engineering Center 614 803 16
Fermi Laboratory 2,165 2,832 57
Fernald Environmental Management Project 84,177 110,099 2,213
Hanford 170,891 223,517 4,492
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory-West 106,934 139,864 2,811
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory-Kesselring 15,554 20,344 409
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 5,099 6,669 134
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1,928 2,522 51
Los Alamos National Laboratory 41,773 54,637 1,098
Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute 344 450 9
Mound 60,027 78,512 1,578
Nevada Test Site 150,000 654 14,000
Oak Ridge National Reservation 26,607 34,801 699
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant 16,996 22,230 447
Pantex Plant 769 1,006 20
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant 63,512 83,071 1,670
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 187 245 5
RMI Extrusion Plant 5,528 7,230 146
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site 13,759 17,996 2,012
Sandia National Laboratories, CA 219 286 6
Savannah River Site 243,901 319,011 6,411
Stanford Linear Accelerator 3,694 4,832 97
Sandia National Laboratories, NM 351 459 9
West Valley Demonstration Project 67 88 2
Totalg 1,041, 422 1,362,129 39,084


a All volumes are derived from the 1994 Integrated Data Base (DOE, 1995a) and the Waste Management Programmatic EIS (DOE, 1995b) projections. The sites and volumes may change based on the final WMP EIS or updated waste load inventories or projections from the respective DOE sites.

b Cubic meters

c Cubic yards

d Assumes the majority of containers are 1-m x 1-m x 2m (4-ft x 4-ft x 7-ft) boxes

e Assumes an average of 12 containers per shipment

f Low-level waste

g Including internally generated waste.



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