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OCRWM Bulletin

Description: This document is the Spring 1995 ORCWM Bulletin which is a report from the U.S. Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. Budget considerations, public response to waste acceptance issues, and a discussion of waste policy forums are described. Several articles about the on-going site characterization at Yucca Mountain are included as a part of this bulletin. Detection of pathways for gases and fluids in the subsurface, hydrochemistry experiments, and a description … more
Date: December 31, 1995
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OCRWM Bulletin

Description: This document is the Winter 1996 ORCWM Bulletin which is a report from the U.S. Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. Budget considerations and a discussion of waste policy forums are described. Several articles about the on-going site characterization at Yucca Mountain are included as a part of this bulletin.Tunnel excavations, meteorology studies, effects of seismic events, and design of a conveyor belt system are some of the topics covered in this issue.
Date: April 1, 1996
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OCRWM Bulletin, August 1994

Description: The Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program undertook a major initiative on June 3, 1994, by requesting proposals for a multi-purpose canister (MPC) system. The purpose of the system is to provide a standardized system for storage, transportation, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel. Among the advantages of the MPC concept two stand out. First, and most important, the system reduces handling of individual spent fuel assemblies. Second, it promotes standardization and compatibility among st… more
Date: August 1, 1994
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OCRWM Bulletin, Winter 1995

Description: This publication describes activities associated with the United States Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Program. Activities at the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project are described.
Date: March 1, 1995
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1991 OCRWM bulletin compilation and index

Description: The OCRWM Bulletin is published by the Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, to provide current information about the national program for managing spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The document is a compilation of issues from the 1991 calendar year. A table of contents and an index have been provided to reference information contained in this year`s Bulletins.
Date: May 1992
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OCRWM Bulletin, summer/fall 1994

Description: This publication consists of two parts, OCRWM Bulletin, and Of Mountains & Science which is about the Yucca Mountain project. The OCRWM bulletin provides information about OCRWM activities, program update to Congress, reorganization, training provided on OCRWM database, OCRWM calendar, and exhibit schedule for 1994. Recent activities at the Yucca Mountain project such as the arrival of the tunnel boring machines is presented in layman`s term.
Date: October 1, 1994
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OCRWM Bulletin: Westinghouse begins designing multi-purpose canister

Description: This publication consists of two parts: OCRWM (Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management) Bulletin; and Of Mountains & Science which has articles on the Yucca Mountain project. The OCRWM provides information about OCRWM activities and in this issue has articles on multi-purpose canister design, and transportation cask trailer.
Date: September 1, 1995
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OCRWM Bulletin: A report from the U.S. Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

Description: This document, entitled the OCRWM Bulletin, is a report from the U.S Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). This issue contains articles describing the following subjects: regulatory drop tests for spent nuclear fuel transportation casks; Environmental Impact Statement for a multi-purpose canister system for spent nuclear fuels; an update from the nuclear waste technical review board; a dry transfer system for spent nuclear fuels and other miscellaneous … more
Date: November 1, 1995
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1989 OCRWM [Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management] Bulletin compilation and index

Description: The OCRWM Bulletin is published by the Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management to provide current information about the national program for managing spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. This document is a compilation of issues from the 1989 calendar year. A table of contents and one index have been provided to assist in finding information contained in this year`s Bulletins. The pages have been numbered consecutively at the bottom for easy reference. 7 fig… more
Date: February 1990
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OCRWM annual report to Congress, fiscal year 1997

Description: This report presents the progress in the activities of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. Chapters include: Yucca Mountain site characterization project; Waste acceptance, storage and transportation project; Program management; Working with external parties; and Financial management. Also included in five appendices are: financial statements; key federal laws and regulations; fiscal year 1997 Congressional testimony and meetings with regulators and oversight bodies; OCREM publ… more
Date: July 1, 1998
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Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD) OCRWM Loop Error Determination

Description: Characterization is specifically identified by the Richland Operations Office (RL) for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) of the US Department of Energy (DOE), as requiring application of the requirements in the Quality Assurance Requirements and Description (QARD) (RW-0333P DOE 1997a). Those analyses that provide information that is necessary for repository acceptance require application of the QARD. The cold vacuum drying (CVD) project identified the loops that measur… more
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: PHILIPP, B.L.
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OCRWM Baseline Management procedure for document indentifiers; Revision 1

Description: This procedure establishes a uniform numbering system (document identifier) for all Program and project technical, cost, and schedule baseline documents, and selected management and procurement documents developed for or controlled by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) for the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS). The document identifier defined in this procedure is structured to ensure that the relational integrity between configuration items (CIs) and … more
Date: December 1, 1993
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Evaluation of helium impurity impacts on Spent Nuclear Fuel project processes (OCRWM)

Description: This document identifies the types and quantities of impurities that may be present within helium that is introduced into multi-canister overpacks (MCO)s by various SNF Project facilities, including, but not limited to the Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD) Facility (CVDF). It then evaluates possible impacts of worst case impurity inventories on MCO drying, transportation, and storage processes. Based on the evaluation results, this document: (1) concludes that the SNF Project helium procurement specific… more
Date: September 21, 1999
Creator: SHERRELL, D.L.
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OCRWM annual report to Congress FY 1999 [USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management]

Description: During Fiscal Year 1999, the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) continued to make significant progress in its characterization of the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, candidate geologic repository site. Although OCRWM's appropriation for Fiscal Year 1999 was lower than requested, the Program accomplished all three success measures in the Secretary's Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Agreement with the President and completed important work in many other areas. This Annual Report reviews … more
Date: May 1, 2000
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1988 Bulletin compilation and index

Description: This document is published to provide current information about the national program for managing spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. This document is a compilation of issues from the 1988 calendar year. A table of contents and one index have been provided to assist in finding information.
Date: February 1989
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Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management annual report to Congress

Description: This seventh Annual Report to Congress by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) describes activities and expenditures of the Office during fiscal years (FY) 1989 and 1990. In November 1989, OCRWM is responsible for disposing of the Nation`s spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a manner that protects the health and safety of the public and the quality of the environment. To direct the implementation of its mission, OCRWM has established the following objec… more
Date: December 1, 1990
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Information services directory

Description: Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) and its amendments establishing the National policy for safely storing, transporting and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a geologic repository. This legislation created the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) within the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop an integrated system for the safe and efficient disposal of high-level radioactive waste. The NWPA, as amended, directs DO… more
Date: January 1, 1991
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Annual report to Congress, FY 1992

Description: The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is responsible for disposing of the Nation`s spent nuclear fuel from civilian nuclear power reactors and high-level radioactive waste from its defense activities in a cost-effective manner that protects the health and safety of the public and workers and the quality of the environment. To accomplish this mission OCRWM is developing a waste management system consisting of a geologic repository, a facility for monitored retrievable stora… more
Date: July 1, 1993
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Information Services Directory

Description: Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) and its amendments establishing the national policy for safely storing, transporting and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a geologic repository. This legislation created the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) within the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop an integrated system for the safe and efficient disposal of high-level radioactive waste. The NWPA, as amended, directs DO… more
Date: March 1, 1991
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Annual report to Congress

Description: This is the eighth annual report submitted by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) to Congress. It covers activities and expenditures during Fiscal Year 1991, which ended September 30, 1991. Chapter 1 of this report describes OCRWM`s mission and objectives. Chapters 2 through 8 cover the following topics: earning public trust and confidence; geological disposal; monitored retrieval storage; transportation; systems integration and regulatory compliance; international progr… more
Date: March 1, 1992
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Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management annual report to Congress

Description: This is the fifth Annual Report to Congress by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). The report covers the activities and expenditures of OCRWM during fiscal year 1987, which ended on September 30, 1987. The activities and accomplishments of OCRWM during fiscal year 1987 are discussed in chapters 1 through 9 of this report. The audited financial statements of the Nuclear Waste Fund are provided in chapter 10. Since the close of the fiscal year, a number of significant eve… more
Date: August 1, 1988
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Characteristics of potential repository wastes. Volume 1

Description: This document, and its associated appendices and microcomputer (PC) data bases, constitutes the reference OCRWM data base of physical and radiological characteristics data of radioactive wastes. This Characteristics Data Base (CDB) system includes data on spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste (HLW), which clearly require geologic disposal, and other wastes which may require long-term isolation, such as sealed radioisotope sources. The data base system was developed for OCRWM by the CDB Projec… more
Date: July 1, 1992
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Characteristics of potential repository wastes

Description: This document, and its associated appendices and microcomputer (PC) data bases, constitutes the reference OCRWM data base of physical and radiological characteristics data of radioactive wastes. This Characteristics Data Base (CDB) system includes data on spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste (HLW), which clearly require geologic disposal, and other wastes which may require long-term isolation, such as sealed radioisotope sources. The data base system was developed for OCRWM by the CDB Projec… more
Date: July 1, 1992
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The utility of system-level RAM analysis and standards for the US nuclear waste management system

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is responsible for developing a system to manage spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in accordance with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and its subsequent amendments. Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is assisting OCRWM in its investigation of whether system-level reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) requirements are appropriate for the waste management system and, if the… more
Date: March 1, 1992
Creator: Rod, S.R.; Adickes, M.D. & Paul, B.K.
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