Comparisons of Historical Process Estimates with Tank Waste Assays

There are few problems within the U.S. DOE complex as difficult as is the disposition of DOE’s fifty-year legacy of defense wastes. This problem faces all of DOE’s facilities to some extent, but none have such a large and complicated waste history as the Hanford Site. The Hanford Site represents DOE’s most complex waste site because it not only involves the majority of waste and that waste is the most complicated, but also because the Hanford Site involves a multitude of interlocking and overlapping issues.