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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Table 5.3-6 Mixed waste volumes and shipments by generator sitea, Alternative 3

10-year Volume Projection



Generator Site
(m3)b (yd3)c

Number of Shipmentsd,e

Ames Laboratory 1 1 1
Argonne National Laboratory-East 6,700 8,763 181
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 40 52 1
Hanford 120,000 156,954 3,243
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Argonne

National Laboratory-West

47,390 61,984 1,281
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory-Kesselring 150 196 4
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 4,300 5,624 116
Los Alamos national Laboratory 2,700 3,532 73
Nevada Test Site (ER)f 500 196,193 9
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant 600 785 16
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant 33,754 44,149 912
RMI Extrusion Plant 25 33 1
Rocky flats Environmental Technology Site 63,000 82,401 9,000
Savannah River site 21, 300 27,859 576
West Valley Demonstration Project 40 52 1
Totalg 300,500 393,039 15,415
a All volumes are derived from the 1994 Integrated Data Base (DOE, 1995a) and the Waste Management Programmatic EIS (DOE, 1995b) inventory projections

b Cubic meters

c Cubic yards

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

e Assumes an average of 12 containers per shipment

f Environmental Restroation Program

g Includes internally generated waste.



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