ASTM E2421-15 (R2021) pdf free download.Standard Guide for Preparing Waste Management Plans for Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities.
1 .1 This guide addresses the development of waste management plans fr potential waste streams resulting from decommissioning activities at nuclear facilities. including identifying, categorizing and handling the waste from generation to final disposal.
1.2 This guide is applicable to potential waste streams anticipated from decommissioning activities of nuclear facilities whose operations were governed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or Agreement State license, under Department of Energy (DOE) Orders, or Department of Defense (DoD) regulations.
1.3 This guide provides a description of the key elements of waste management plans that if followed will successfully allow for the characterization, packaging, transportation, and off-site treatment or disposal. or both, of conventional, hazardous, and radioactive waste streams.
1.4 This guide does not address the on-site treatment, long term storage, or on-site disposal of these potential waste Streams.
5.1.1 High Level—High level wastes are irradiated reactor fuel (spent nuclear fuel) and the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of irradiated reactor fuel, including liquid waste and any solid material derived from such liquid (10 CFR 60, DOE Manual M 435.1-1).
5.1.2 Transuranic—Transuranic wastes are any material containing alpha-emitting transuranic nuclides with half-lives greater than 20 years and in concentrations greater than 100 nanocuries per gram (3.7 kBq g).
5. 1 .3 By-Product Material—By-product material wastes are any radioactive material (except special nuclear material)
yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation
incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material, and the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content (42 Usc 2014(e)).
5. 1 .4 Naturally Occurring and Accelerator Produced Radioactive Ma terial.
5.1.4.1 NORM (Naturall’ Occurring Radioactive Material)—Any material that contains naturally occurring radionuclides. By-product material and the natural radioactivity of rocks, soils, or background radiation are not to be included (DOE Manual M435.1-1).
5. 1 .4.2 NARM (Naturally Occurring or Accelerator Produced Radioactive Material)—Any material that contains NORM or accelerator-produced radioactive materials.ASTM E2421 pdf download.