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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:49:22 -0600
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Subject: Re: radioactive salts
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Here at our university we made use of the federally funded “Orphan Source” program to remove our old radioactive samples.  Our contact for this was through http://www.crcpd.org/   which set us up with someone from the Illinois Emergency Management, Division of Nuclear Safety.  The “Orphan Source” information came from the government site;   http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/1999/99-128.html . 

Kathleen Schmidt-Nebril, NRCC-CHO

Dominican University

Division of Chemistry

Department of Natural Science

River Forest, IL 60305

From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Russ Phifer
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] radioactive salts

A local laboratory here has four bottles of thorium and uranium salts they’d like to get rid of.  Looking into it, I found it was going to cost close to $4000 to transport and dispose of less than a pound of material at a facility in Houston; this is the only facility I can find that will accept this material.  These are not RCRA hazardous, and the radioactivity has to be extremely low.  The DOT numbers are 2909 and 2910; there doesn’t appear to be any difficulty shipping them. 

 

My question is – what are other labs doing to dispose of this type of material?  Is it possible to encase them in concrete or another inert material and dispose in a municipal system?  Is there anyone recycling these salts?  Any ideas?

 

Thanks̷ 0;.

 

Russ Phifer

 

Russ Phifer

WC Environmental, LLC

1085C Andrew Drive

West Chester, PA  19380

610-696-9220x12/ fax 610-344-7519

rphifer**At_Symbol_Here**wcenvironmental.com

 

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