The Energy Department wants to truck transuranic waste from other sites for inspection and repacking at Hanford before shipping the barrels off to New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
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Transuranic waste is typically plutonium-contaminated trash, such as discarded protective gear, tools and equipment, that is highly radioactive and can take thousands of years to decay to safe radiation levels.
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The drums contain transuranic waste-- typically items such as clothing, tools and debris used in the handling of nuclear waste-- that has a half life of 20 years or greater.
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"' Transuranic waste "'( TRU ) is, as stated by U . S . regulations and independent of state or origin, waste which has been contaminated with MBq / kg ).
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In 2004, the site shipped its 10, 000th drum of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( WIPP ), a DOE facility in New Mexico, 12 years ahead of schedule.
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The first version of the Seaborg core is planned to produce 50 MW th power and could consume approximately 1 ton ( not considering natural decays ) of transuranic waste over its 60 years power plant lifetime.
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C Class low level waste has a limit of 100 nano-Curies per gram of alpha-emitting transuranic nuclides with a half life greater than 5 years; any more than 100 nCi, and it must be classified as transuranic waste ( TRU ).
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The Integral fast reactor was never completed, the article says : " Fast reactors can " burn " long lasting nuclear transuranic waste ( TRU ) waste components ( actinides : reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides ), turning liabilities into assets.
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Under U . S . law, transuranic waste is further categorized into " contact-handled " ( CH ) and " remote-handled " ( RH ) on the basis of the radiation dose rate measured at the surface of the waste container.
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The Energy Department also promised to ship from Hanford to a permanent nuclear graveyard in New Mexico at least twice as much of the so-called transuranic waste as is shipped into Hanford, according to a press release from Gov . Gary Locke's office.
