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Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on NUCLEAR AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT SPECTRUM '92 August 23-27, 1992 Boise, Idaho Sponsored by the American Nuclear Society's • Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division • Idaho Section U.S. Department of Energy Atomic Energy Society of Japan Published by the American Nuclear Society, Inc. La Grange Park, Illinois 60525 USA

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Proceedingsof the

International Topical Meetingon

NUCLEAR AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT

SPECTRUM '92

August 23-27, 1992Boise, Idaho

Sponsored by the American Nuclear Society's• Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division• Idaho Section

U.S. Department of EnergyAtomic Energy Society of Japan

Published by theAmerican Nuclear Society, Inc.

La Grange Park, Illinois 60525 USA

Foreword xix

VOLUME 1

SESSION 1

DOE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATIONPROGRAM STATUS AND LESSONS LEARNED

Progress in the Environmental Restoration at the Savan-nah River Site (SRS) / James M. Pope (WestinghouseSRC), Linda McClain (DOE, Aiken) 3

Environmental Restoration at the Kansas City Plant —Quality Science with a View Toward the Future / D. E.Brown (Allied-Signal), N. E. Korte (ORNL, GrandJunction) 8

The INEL Environmental Restoration Program Over-view / A. C. Williams (DOE, Idaho) 13

Remediation Status at the Fernald Environmental Man-agement Project / /. R. Craig (DOE, Cincinnati), J. P.Hopper (Westinghouse Fernald), R. W. Myers (ThetaTechnol) 19

Implementation of a Hanford Past-Practice Investiga-tion Strategy for the 100 Areas / R. E. Day, A. D.Krug, M. J. Lauterbach (Westinghouse Hanford) 25

Hanford Site Past Practice Investigation Strategy —Lessons Learned / K. Michael Thompson (DOE, Rich-land) 31

Impacts of the Use of Institutional Controls on Risk As-sessments for Department of Energy Facilities / RobinK. White, Andy Redfearn, Renee Shaw, Amy D. King(ORNL) 37

Cost-Time Management: A Powerful Tool in a NewApplication - Cleaning Up the Weapons Complex /James L. Gallagher (Westinghouse) 44

Cost-Time Management for Environmental RestorationActivities at the Department of Energy's Idaho NationalEngineering Laboratory Idaho Chemical ProcessingPlant / Brian R. Fourr, Adam H. Owen, Dee J. Wil-liamson (WINCO), Constance L. Nash (DOE, Idaho).. 50

NEPA Supplement Analysis as a Planning Tool / M. E.Jones (EG&G Rocky Flats) 53

Savannah River Site RCRA/CERCLA/NEPA Inte-grated Investigation Case Study / D. R. Clark, R.Thomas, M. P. Wilson (Westinghouse SRC) 57

SESSION 2

USE OF ROBOTICS IN CHARACTERIZATIONAND TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES

The DOE EM Office of Technology Development Ro-botics Program / L. W. Yarbrough (DOE), A. Williams(EG&G Idaho), J. Pasini III (BDM Int) 65

Light Duty Robotic Arms for the Characterization ofUnderground Storage Tanks / Cat Christensen, Bret L.Griebenow (WINCO) 71

A Miniaturized Sensor System for In Situ Robotic Char-acterization of Hazardous Waste / J. T. Feddema(SNL) 75

Mobile Instrumentation Platform and Robotic Acces-sory for Real-Time Screening of Hazardous Waste /Marvin S. Anderson, Edward J. Jaselskis (DOE,Ames) 81

A Remote Characterization System and a Fault-TolerantTracking System for Subsurface Mapping of BuriedWaste Sites / Gerald A. Sandness, David W. Bennett(PNL), Lori Martinson (WINCO), Dennis N. Bingham,Allen A. Anderson (INEL, EG&G Idaho) 86

Development of a Teleoperated Backhoe for BuriedWaste Excavation / B. L. Burks, S. M. Killough, D. H.Thompson (ORNL) 93

Guidelines for Designing Telerobotic Vision Systems /M. S. Shimamoto, D. C. Smith, D. M. Daguio (NavalCommand Ctr) 98

Overview of the DOE Waste Facilities Operations Ro-botics Technology Development Program / Clyde R.Ward (Westinghouse SRC) 105

Remote Size Reduction for the DOE Office of Technol-ogy Development Robotics Technology DevelopmentProgram / K. M. Croft (EG&G Idaho), C. R. Ward(Westinghouse SRC), S. M. Allen (EG&G Idaho) 108

SESSION 3

WASTE MINIMIZATION TECHNOLOGYAND EXPERIENCE

Waste Minimization Programs at Taiwan Power Com-pany / K. K. Li (Taipower-Taiwan) 115

Results of Melting Large Quantities of RadioactiveMetallic Scrap / Manfred Sappok, Guido Rettig(Siempelkamp-FRG) 120

Depleted Uranium Manufacturing Waste Minimizationat the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant / J. E. Thompson, J. W.Koger (MMES) 132

Purification of Waste Uranium for Recycle / T. A.Lograsso, D. W. Delaney (DOE, Ames), G. W. Parker,J. C. Mailen (ORNL) 136

Electroplating Waste Minimization at Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory / J. W. Dini, C. P. Steffani(LLNL) 142

Waste, Energy and Raw Material Reduction Potentialof Near Net Shape Metal Forming Processes / How-ard A. Greis (Kinefac), Noel P. Greis (Univ of NorthCarolina) 148

Waste Minimization: An Important Element in the Re-vitalization of the Nuclear Power Industry / LarryLeach, Debu Majumdar (DOE, Idaho), M. A. Knecht,J. W. McConnell, K. M. Van Brunt, L. T. Trujillo(EG&G Idaho), A. L. Olson (WINCO) 154

Regulatory Trends and Waste Minimization Practicesfor Manufacturing / F.E. Kosinski (Technics Develop-ment) 159

SESSION 4

REPROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES FACILITIESAND EXPERIENCE

A French View on the Back-End of the Fuel Cycle:Reprocessing at UP3 and Its Future / P. M. Saverot(NUSYS-France), J. P. Laurent (COGEMA-France).. 165

Modeling of Electrochemical Partitioning of Uraniumand Plutonium / K. K. Li (Taipower-Taiwan), A.Schneider, D. Pschirer (Georgia Tech) 168

The NOX Abatement Program at the Idaho ChemicalProcessing Plant / John A. McCray, Richard D. Board-man (WINCO) 174

Effect of Ruthenium Ion and Gamma-Ray Irradiationon Corrosion Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steels inNitric Acid / Takashi Hirano, Fujio Katahira, KazuoYoshida, Akira Ohno (Ishikawajima-Harima HeavyIndustries-Japan) 179

Fluidic Sampling / E. D. Houck (WINCO) 185

The Design and Construction of THORP / G. Harrop,C. Phillips (BNFL-UK) 189

The Contribution of Human Factors to the THORPProject / J. Reed (BNFL-UK) 195

Partitioning and Transmutation of Long-Lived Radio-Nuclides-R&D to Reduce the Long-Term Risk Poten-tial of Nuclear Waste Conducted by the Commission ofthe European Communities / J. Van Geel, L. Koch(ITE-FRG), S. Orlowski (CEC-Belgium) 201

Technical Policy of Radioactive Wastes Management //. V. Chuvilo, G. V. Kiselev (ITEP-Russia) 205

SESSION 5

POSTER SESSION: SITE CHARACTERIZATIONSTRATEGIES AND EXPERIENCE

Establishing a Program to Provide Complete Radio-logical Analytical Services from Laboratory AnalysisThrough Data Validation / David A. Anderson (EG&GIdaho) 213

Environmental Restoration at the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory Livermore Site /John P. Ziagos,Robert W. Bainer (LLNL), Michael D. Dresen, Jona-than D. Hoffman (Weiss Assoc) 217

An Integrated Approach to the Characterization ofUranium-Contaminated Soils / V. C. Tidwell (SNL),S. Y. Lee (ORNL), D. E. Morris (LANL), D. L. Perry,C. Carnahan (LBL), J. C. Cunnane (ANL), S. D. Con-radson (LANL), V. Gill (Westinghouse Fernald), M. D.Nickelson (MMES) 221

Thorough Characterization Is the Key to Remediation —A Case Study / Barry Koh (B. Koh & Assoc), Theo-dore G. Adams (Dames & Moore) 228

Environmental Site Characterization and Remediationat Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 /Albert L. Lamarre (LLNL), Robert A. Ferry (WeissAssoc) 234

Analysis Method for 241Pu in Environmental Waters /M. W. Huntley, C. W. Filby, D. K. Kester (WINCO).. 241

Analysis Method for Cl-36 in Environmental WaterReleases / S. D. Hartenstein, M. W. Huntley, B. E.Brown (WINCO), F. E. Frazier (North Carolina CentralUniv) 243

Characterization of Subsurface Sediments at a Site ofGasoline Contamination / D. J. Bishop, P. W. Krauter,M. C. Jovanovich, K. Lee (LLNL), S. C. Nelson, C.Noyes (Weiss Assoc) 246

Sandia National Laboratories Mixed Waste LandfillIntegrated Demonstration / L. D. Tyler, J. M. Phelan,N. K. Prindle, S. T. Purvis, J. C. Stormont (SNL)... 252

A Slow Neutron Interrogation Facility / S. H. Vegors,Jr., S. W. Serrano (Idaho State Univ), E. B. Nieschmidt,L. O. Johnson (EG&G Idaho) 257

SESSION 6

POSTER SESSION: INTEGRATEDDEMONSTRATION/INTEGRATED PROGRAMS

The Technology Development Integrated Program andIntegrated Demonstration Strategy / C. W. Frank(DOE), J. Steele (Westinghouse SRC), M. Peterson(PNL), A. S. Kubo (BMD Int) 265

Organics in Soils and Groundwater at Non-Arid Sites(A-1)-Integrated Demonstration / J. L. Steele, D. S.Kaback, B. B. Looney (Westinghouse SRC) 273

Integrated Demonstration for Remediation of VolatileOrganic Compounds at Arid Sites / Steven L. Stein(Battelle, Seattle) 278

Uranium in Soils Integrated Demonstration 1992 Up-date / Kimberly R. Nuhfer (Westinghouse Fernald) .. 282

Underground Storage Tank — Integrated Demonstra-tion / R. L. Gilchrist (Westinghouse Hanford) 287

Implementation of the Buried Waste Integrated Demon-stration / Kevin M. Kostelnik, S. Kenneth Merrill(INEL, EG&G Idaho) 295

Overview of FY92/FY93 Waste Component Recycle,Treatment, and Disposal Integrated Demonstration(WeDID) Activities / W. T. Wheelis (SNL) 298

The Integrated Program for Characterization, Monitor-ing, and Sensor Technologies / M. C. Edelson, W. J.Haas, Jr. (DOE, Ames) 303

Innovative Technology Demonstrations / Daniel B. An-derson (PNL), James N. Hartley (Battelle, EnvironMgmt Op), Stuart P. Luttrell (PNL), Robert E. Hinchee(Battelle) 309

Office of Technology Development —Integrated Pro-gram for Development of In Situ Remediation Technol-ogies / Mary Peterson (PNL) 316

The In Situ Vitrification Integrated Program: Focusingan Innovative Solution on Environmental RestorationNeeds / James L. Buelt, Leo E. Thompson (PNL)... 322

Overview of the Dynamic Underground Stripping Dem-onstration Project / Roger Aines, Robin Newmark,William McConachie, David Rice, Abelardo Ramirez,William Siegel, Mike Buettner, William Daily, PaulaKrauter, Ed Folsom, A. J. Boegel, Dorothy Bishop(LLNL), Kent Udell (Univ of California, Berkeley) .. 327

Department of Energy/U.S. Air Force Memorandum ofAgreement Program / Anne E. Copeland (INEL,EG&G Idaho) 333

Characterization and Monitoring Technology for Envi-ronmental Restoration and Waste Management / D. F.Roelant (BDMInt), C. Purdy, S. M. Wolf, L. E. Wil-liams (DOE) 335

Mixed-Waste Technology: Research, Development,Demonstration, Testing, and Evaluation / J. B. Berry(ORNL), R. Gillins (SAIC, Idaho Falls), K. Hain(DOE), M. Larsen (SAIC, Idaho Falls), R. Moats(BDM Int), G. Ordaz (DOE) 338

SESSION 7

REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY EVALUATIONAND REVIEW

A Performance Based Technology Selection Method-ology / M. J. Rudin, J. G. Richardson, M. C. O'Brien,J. L. Morrison (INEL) 345

Comparison of System Concepts for Processing ofStored Low-Level TRU Waste at the INEL / F. Feizol-lahi (Morrison-Knudsen), W. J. Quapp (INEL, EG&GIdaho) 349

Low Level Radioactive Waste Treatment —A Reviewwith Selected Case Histories /V.I. Lakshmanan, M. M.Rishea (ORTECH Int-Canada), M. C. Campbell(CANMET-Canada) 355

An Overview of In Situ Waste Treatment Technologies /5. Walker, R. A. Hyde, R. B. Piper, M. W. Roy (INEL,EG&G Idaho) 360

Soil Washing and Radioactive Contamination / DirkGombert, J. B. Bosley (WINCO) 366

Effects of Solution pH and Complexing Reagents onUranium and Thorium Desorption Under SaturatedEquilibrium Conditions / Yug-Yea Wang, Charley Yu(ANL) 371

Treatment of Groundwater and Soil-Wash Leachate So-lutions Containing Mixed Waste Contaminants / L. P.Buckley, R. W. D. Killey, S. Vijayan, C. F. Wong(AECL Chalk River-Canada) 378

SESSION 8

SITE AND WASTE CHARACTERIZATIONANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES

An Evaluation of Slug Interference Tests for AquiferCharacterization at the Hanford Site /FA. Spane, Jr.,P. D. Thorne (PNL) 387

Monitoring Remediation of Trichloroethylene Using aChemical Fiber Optic Sensor: Field Studies / B. Col-ston, Jr., S. B. Brown, K. Langry, P. Daley, F. P.Milanovich (LLNL) 393

Nonintrusive Characterization of Waste Sites /EdwardHensel, Kim E. Dalton (New Mexico State Univ) 397

Field Screening for Heavy Metals with Portable XRFUnits / R. G. McCain, S. J. Guzek (Westinghouse Han-ford) 402

Remote, Real-Time Analysis of Hazardous WastesThrough Laser Ablation—Inductively Coupled PlasmaAtomic Emission Spectrometry / Arthur P. D'Silva,Dan Zamzow, Edward Jaselskis, Stephan Weeks (DOE,Ames) 409

New Mass Spectroscopic Methods for Waste Manage-ment / C. H. Chen, W. R. Garrett, S. L. Allman, R. C.Phillips (ORNL) 414

Application of Office of Radiation Programs Soil Char-acterization Protocol During the RI/FS Process at Ra-dioactive Superfund Sites / James Neiheisel (EPA) .. 419

SESSION 9

NORM AND BELOW REGULATORYCONCERN WASTE

Regulation of Oil and Gas NORM in Louisiana / L.Hall Bohlinger (Louisiana DEQ) 425

An Estimate of the Risk from Naturally Occurring Ra-dioactive Material Associated with the Production ofPetroleum / L. Max Scott, Melvin B. Hebert (LouisianaState Univ) 429

Characteristics of NORM Waste Disposal / D. E. Bern-hardt, V. C. Rogers (Rogers and Assoc) 432

Options for Disposal of Wastes Containing NORM /V. C. Rogers, K. K. Nielson (Rogers and Assoc) 438

New Technologies for Recycling Radioactive Scrap Met-als: A Technical Overview / Samar Chatterjee (Dyna-mac Corp), Herman H. Moore (DOE, West Valley).. 444

SESSION 10

HIGH-LEVEL WASTE STATUS AND EXPERIENCE

Glass Quality for Long Term Disposal. An Overview ofthe Vitrification Experience in France / P. M. Saverot(NUSYS-France), J. P. Laurent (COGEMA-France).. 453

Operational Experience at the Windscale VitrificationPlant, BNFL, Sellafield, England / Tim Houghton(BNFL-UK) 459

Operational Experience of the Pamela VitrificationPlant / H. Wiese (WAK-FRG), M. Demonie (BELGO-PROCESS-Belgium) 464

Current Status and Recent Accomplishments in theVitrification Department at the West Valley Demonstra-tion Project / R. E. Lawrence, C. L. McMahon(WVNSC) 468

Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant Process Descriptionand Plant Status / G. E. Stegen, L. D. Swenson (Wes-tinghouse Hanford) 474

Defense Waste Processing Facility Startup ProgressReport / D. C. Iverson, H. H. Elder (WestinghouseSRC) 480

SESSION 11

STUDENT POSTER SESSION

Tracer Flow Studies Through Zeolitized and DevitrifiedYucca Mountain Tuff Samples / C. S. Preti, C. A. Ar-rington (Furman Univ), D. L. Bish (LANL) 489

Field Evaluation of Permeable Barriers to RemoveGroundwater Contaminants / Debbie J. Finfrock, BruceThomson (Univ of New Mexico) 496

Gaseous Chlorination of Cyanides in Heap Leach Tail-ings / William R. Turney, Bruce M. Thomson (Univ ofNew Mexico), M. Barraco (Pegasus Gold Corp) 501

Development of Application Plan to Bioremediate Cy-anide and Nitrate Contamination / J. T. Markwiese,C. S. White (Univ of New Mexico) 507

Development of Actinide Selective Chelators for Envi-ronmental Applications / Aravamudan S. Gopalan,Vincent J. Huber, Orhan Zincircioglu (New MexicoState Univ), Paul H. Smith (LANL) 513

Electromagnetic Modeling of Solid Waste Landfills /Kim E. Dalton (New Mexico State Univ) 514

Utilization of Advanced Controllers for Robotic Manip-ulators in Waste Treatment Technology / /. Guldner,J. J. Carroll, D. M. Dawson (Clemson Univ), Z. Qu(Univ of Central Florida) 519

Importance of Phase Behavior in Remediation of DenseNonaqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) ContaminatedAquifers by Alcohol Flooding / D. Brandes, K. J.Farley (Clemson Univ) 525

Development of Ceramic Crucibles for Plutonium Anal-ysis / J. V. Hinkson, L. L. Payne (South Carolina StateUniv), B. I. Lee, H. G. LeFort (Clemson Univ), E. J.Markel (Univ of South Carolina) 531

Automated Real Time Neural Computing for DefenseWaste Processing / Yalin Hu (Univ of South Carolina).. 534

Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic InformationSystems for Classification and Environmental Modelingof Aquatic Macrophytes / Sunil Narumalani (Univ ofSouth Carolina) 541

Characterization of Eocene Formations Using ShapeFactor Analysis / N. E. G. Smith (Univ of SouthCarolina-Aiken), W. C. Fallow (Furman Univ), W. P.Kegley, D. S. Snipes (Clemson Univ), Van Price, Jr.(Westinghouse SRC) 547

The Summer Institute of Technology Transfer (SITT) /George F. Littlejohn (Univ of South Carolina-Aiken).. 553

Degradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls by FerricPerchlorate and Hydrogen Peroxide Reagents / Guada-lupe Chapa (Yale Univ) 556

James Bay: Not Such a Good Idea / Stephanie Tariche(Cornell Univ) 560

An Innovative Mine Waste Disposal Process / SandraOliver 564

Recycling: Can We Change Our "Throw Away" Soci-ety? / Nancy Lozano (Texas A&M Univ) 567

Acid Rain: Will Our Air Ever Be Clean? / GermanAcosta 571

A Study of the Groundwater Data Base for the Alluvialand Wepo Aquifers, Black Mesa, Arizona / R. P. Smit,D. Day, R. Foust, Jr. (Northern Arizona Univ) 577

Water Supply for El Paso-Juarez: A Shared Resourceand a Shared Problem / Hugo Chavez (Univ of Texas,El Paso) 583

Microbial Rock Plant Filters: Innovations in SmallWastewater Systems / Alfredo Magallanes (Univ ofTexas, El Paso) 589

The Effects of Lead on Insecticide Metabolism / Jac-queline Carmen, James Guilford, Edward Eugere,Gouri Mitra (Texas Southern Univ) 594

Pacific Northwest Laboratory Soil CharacterizationStudy Relevant to Contaminant Migration / Charles E.Bethley (Southern Univ) 600

Mercury Contamination in South Florida / L. M. Keith(Florida Int Univ) 603

Pesticide and Herbicide Effects on Metabolic Activityof the Gills of the Freshwater Mollusc Elepio complea-natus / William R. Wyatt (Univ of California, Davis).. 607

Effects of Possible Landfill Contaminants on the St.Croix River Mayfly Populations / Rita Joy Staples (LacCourte Oreilles Ojibwa CC) 612

Fracture Statistics of Waste Isolation Glass / Eric Stef-fler, Dennis N. Coon (Univ of Wyoming), Jonathan S.Epstein (INEL, EG&G Idaho) 618

The Management of Drilling Fluids: EnvironmentalFactors and Regulations / Juan Antonio Rios, Jr.(Southeast CC) 624

Holey Sky / San Juanita Cardenas 628

SESSION 12

EXPERIENCE IN GROUNDWATER CLEANUPAND SOIL REMEDIATION

Removal of Uranium, Plutonium and Americium fromRocky Flats Waste Water / J. C. Laul, O. Erlich, C.Trice, T. C. Greengard (EG&G Rocky Flats), T. S.Johnson (Filter Flow Technol), R. O. Hoffland (ACSEnvironmental) 637

Dynamic Underground Stripping Engineering Demon-stration Project: Construction, Operation and Engineer-ing Results / W. H. Siegel, H. M. Buettner (LLNL),K. S. Udell (Univ of California, Berkeley) 643

Remediation of a TCE Ground Spill Using an ElectronAccelerator / S. M. Matthews, A. J. Boegel, D. W.Camp, R. A. Cauifield, J. O. Cunningham, P. F. Daley,J. J. Greci, M. C. Jovanovich, J. A. Loftis, P. D. So-ran (LLNL) 649

Site Restoration Activity at ENEA Trisaia Center / L.Di Pace, C. Pastore, G. Ragazzo, P. Risoluti (ENEA-Italy) 653

"MAWS" —A Development Program and Demonstra-tion to Reduce Vitrification Remediation TreatmentCosts / I. W. Diggs, R. F. Gimpel (Westinghouse Fer-nald) 659

Designing Versatility into a Vapor Extraction System atthe Department of Energy Hanford Site / R. J. Came-ron (Ebasco Services), P. J. Valcich (Westinghouse Han-ford) 665

High-Energy Corona for Destruction of Volatile Or-ganic Contaminants in Process Off-Gases / J. W. Vir-den, W. O. Heath, S. C. Goheen, M. C. Miller, G. M.Mong, R. L. Richardson (PNL) 670

Uranium in a Septic Leach Field: Measurement andRESRAD Analysis of Dose Pathways / Thomas Gut-man (UNC Naval Products) 674

SESSION 13

HANFORD TANK WASTE REMEDIATIONSYSTEM PROGRAM

Hanford Site Tank Waste Remediation System / D. D.Wodrich (Westinghouse Hanford) 681

Research and Development Support of the Hanford SiteTank Waste Remediation System / B. M. Johnson(PNL), D. D. Wodrich (Westinghouse Hanford) 687

Development of Simulated Tank Wastes for the U.S.Department of Energy's Underground Storage Tank In-tegrated Demonstration / M. R. Elmore, N. G. Cotton,E. O. Jones (PNL) 693

Retrieval Technology Development for Hanford Double-Shell Tanks / Judith Ann Bamberger, Barry M. Wise(PNL), William C. Miller (Westinghouse Hanford) .. 700

Pretreatment Process Testing of Hanford Tank Wastefor the U.S. Department of Energy's Underground Stor-age Tank Integrated Demonstration / E. O. Jones, N. G.Colton (PNL), G. R. Bloom, G. S. Barney, S. A.Colby, R. G. Cowan (Westinghouse Hanford) 706

The Hydrogen Program: The Present Understanding ofthe Cyclic Venting Tanks / H. Babad, G. D. Johnson,D. A. Reynolds (Westinghouse Hanford), D. M. Stra-chan (PNL) 712

Ferrocyanide Containing Tanks: A Study in Risk Eval-uation / R. J. Cash, H. Babad (Westinghouse Hanford),A. Postma (Benton City Technol) 717

The Hanford Site High-Level Tank Waste Data Speci-fication Process / Robert D. Waters (Vanderbilt Univ),Harry Babad (Westinghouse Hanford) 728

SESSION 14

OPPORTUNITIES IN DOE TECHNOLOGYINTEGRATION PROGRAM

Stakeholder Involvement in Technology Development—Models for Involving the "Critical Masses" / C. Sink,D. Beck (DOE), J. DiLullo (BDM Int) 739

Transferring Technology from Demonstration to De-ployment / Steven L. Stein (Battelle, Seattle), John L.Steele (Westinghouse SRC), Lynn D. Tyler (SNL) ... 744

Savannah River Site's Technology Integration Program /Dennis C. Rogers, James F. Kauffman (Univ of SouthCarolina), Gerald J. Hooker, John C. Corey (Westing-house SRC) 747

Industry Integration into DOE Environmental Manage-ment / T. A. Berg, T. R. Gagnier (MMES) 753

A Private Capital Environmental Technology Integra-tion Program / M. L. Mastracci (EPA) 759

Partnership with California Community Colleges' Cen-ters for Applied Competitive Technologies / Paul R.Dickinson (LLNL) 764

Hazardous Waste's Third Dimension: Innovative Ap-proaches to Public Participation / Sheila Conway(Colorado CEM) 767

Assessing the Public and Regulatory Acceptability ofDeploying New Cleanup Technologies: A Case Study ofthe Integrated Demonstration for Remediation of Vol-atile Organic Compounds at Arid Sites / Gretchen H.McCabe, Steven L. Stein (Battelle, Seattle) 771

SESSION 15

TRANSPORTATION

A Radiation Detector to Qualify Spent Fuel for Trans-port / Ronald I. Ewing (SNL) 777

The Use of Preliminary FICA Data in Selecting CaskType / Helmut A. Work (INEL, EG&G Idaho) 780

Plutonium and PU Contaminated Materials, Transport-able or Not? / P. Seamster (DOE, Albuquerque), L.Blalock (DOE), R. Garrison (Garrison Assoc) 783

Policy and Current Status of the Spent Fuel InterimStorage in Taiwan / W. K. Cheng, R. T. Lee, C. M. Tsai(AEC-Taiwan) 788

DOE'S Transportation Regulatory Drivers —"A Net-work of Uncertainty for the Uninitiated" / L. Blalock(DOE), R. Garrison (Garrison Assoc), F. Daly (Social& Scientific Systems), A. Rymer (Consultant) 794

SESSION 16

POSTER SESSION: UTILITIES LLW/GTCC/D&DWASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY

Ultrasonic Washing and Electrodecontamination asMeans to Change Waste Classification / G. Naud, J. P.Gauchon (CEA-DCC-France), M. Lattaud (CEA-DAM-France) 805

Demonstration of Crystalline Ice Blast DecontaminationTechnology / C. E. Benson, R. G. Grubb, R. C. Heller(ORNL), B. D. Patton, G. L. Wyatt (Applied Rad Con-trol) 807

SESSION 17

POSTER SESSION: QUALITY ANDTHE HUMAN ELEMENT

Ecological Risk Assessments and Remedial Investiga-tions of Populations, Communities, and EcosystemsAlong East Fork Poplar Creek, Oak Ridge, Tennessee /B. W. Cornaby, K. L. Daniels, C. T. Hadden, S. V.Mitz, W. J. Rogers (SAIC, Oak Ridge), D. G. Page(DOE, Oak Ridge) 815

A Review of Occupational Safety and Health IssuesRelevant to the Environmental Restoration Program:Selected Case Histories and Associated Issues /A.M.Lesperance, M. R. Siegel, M. D. McKinney (PNL) .. 819

Applied Quality Assurance During Remediation of Plu-tonium Contaminated Soil at Johnston Atoll / Kath-leen S. Moroney (TMA/Eberline) 823