Archives
- July 2002 -- Report to Congress - The Cost of Waste Disposal:
Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Disposal of Department of Energy Low-Level Radioactive Waste at Federal and Commercial Facilities -- Adobe PDF File (52 Pages -- 683KB.Report to Congress
- Also avalible is a Memorandum from EM1 titled -- "Low-Level Wasge Disposal Cost Study: Implementing the Results"
- May 2002 -- WASTE CLEANUP -- Status and Implications of DOE’s Compliance Agreements -- General Acounting Office - Adobe PDF File 56 Pages -- 360KB
- May 2001 DOE Audit Report -- Utilization of the Department's Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities -- 15 Pages 178KB.
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December 2000 -- United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992, DOE/NV--209-REV 15 - lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States.
Download Document -- 877KB
- Summer 2000 -- Cleaning Up America's Nuclear Weapons Complex -- A governor's Guide, by Ann M. Beauchesne and Jerry Boese, National Governor's Association - Center for Best Practices. The report provides an overview of the nuclear weapons complex, the site's past and current missions, and most importantly, their connection to each other. The report also highlights the state's perspective on some of the critical issues faced by the DOE sites. State summaries are provided for: Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.
Download Document -- 914KB
- June 15, 1999 -- Western Governors' Association (WGA) Policy Resolution 99-006 (Transportation of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Over Hover Dam). SPONSORS: Governors Guinn (NV) and Hull (AZ). The Governors policy acknowledge that adequate LLW (Low-Level Waste) off-site disposal is critical for facilitating cleanup and closure of contaminated nuclear weapons and defense facilities -- yet they also believe "that it is the responsibility of DOE [Department of Energy] to assure that LLW is shipped to disposal sites using routes that are the safest and that avoid higher risk locations such as Hoover Dam. (Note: this is an external link to the WGA website.)
- June 1999 -- NRC Takes Actions On "Orphan" Radioactive Sources (Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and The U.S. Department Of Energy Office of Waste Management Concerning Management of Sealed Sources) Prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- June 1998 -- Accelerating Cleanup: "Paths to Closure" Prepared by: DOE Nevada Operations Office Las Vegas, Nevada
- February 1999 -- ANNUAL REPORT - FY 1998 Shipments to and from the Nevada Test Site (NTS) (United States Department of Energy Nevada Operations office Las Vegas, Nevada)
- September 1988 -- Audit Report, Disposal of Low-Level and Low-Level Mixed Waste (Prepared by: U.S. Department of Energy office of Inspector General, Office of Audit Services.) Download in Adobe Acrobat file format (PDF)
- August 1998 -- Long-Term Stewardship at the Nevada Test Site. (By John B. Walker and Paul J. Liebendorfer)
- November 15, 1996 -- State of Nevada Comments, U.S. Department of Energy EIS/NTS Final Environmental Impact Statement
- U.S. Department of Energy EIS/NTS Record of Decision (ROD). 1996 Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations in the State of Nevada
HTML Version
Adobe PDF version
- U.S Department of Energy PEIS LLW ROD
- State/DOE Settlement Agreement Nevada Test Site Law Suite April 17, 1997
- CEQ Regulations (Council of Environmental Quality)
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