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RE: [GreenYes] radioactive scrap policy review & comments
- Subject: RE: [GreenYes] radioactive scrap policy review & comments
- From: "Maine, Bruce" <bmaine@hdrinc.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:18:26 -0500
Title: radioactive scrap policy review & comments
For those interested in pursuing the issue of radioactive scrap I
suggest accessing the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. website (attached
below). They have had a lengthy dialogue with the DOE regarding
radioactive waste in steel scrap and have generated several articulate position
papers on the subject. From the standpoint of a recycling advocate I
have been attempting to include information in relevant sections in
architectural specifications for steel and steel products. It would appear that
a dose rate of .1 millirem/year would be appropriate. Lingering
questions remain in respect to how such information is provided and
the protocol from scrap recycler to mill, to supplier to fabricator.
Originally I had asked for certification of a maximum level of
radioactivity in steel bur this was most certainly naive on my part since the
mechanisms that are required to fulfill this information are not readily
available. Perhaps a more realistic approach would be to ask for a
certificate that the recycled content portion of steel had been furnished
by a scrap dealer that is normally engaged in the identification
and "treatment" of radioactive waste. Or, as I suspect, is this
still asking for information that can never be easily discernable? Or
have any A/Es on the list ever added such language to
specifications?