Greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive waste characterization. Appendix E-1: Historical development of GTCC LLW characterization

By the late 1980s, it was apparent that there was little support for any of the volume projections of greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive waste (GTCC LLW) thus far predicted. It had also become clear that the amount of GTCC LLW to be generated in the future was highly dependent on a number of specific technical and policy issues unrelated to past generation rates. In 1990, DOE`s EM-35 organization requested that the GTCC LLW Management Program at the INEL conduct a systematic exercise designed to achieve a degree of consensus around a narrower range of volume projections. Following the series of workshops, the INEL and subcontractors conducted technical studies to associate specific waste volume projections with the various scenarios developed by the panels. The results of these studies were reported in Greater-Than-Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste Characterization: Estimated Volumes, Radionuclide Activities, and Other Characteristics (DOE/LLW-114, August 1991). This appendix briefly describes the historical development of the GTCC LLW project