by Savannah River Remediation (contractor)
Report “SRR-STI-2018-00146 Revision 1” – linked here
NOTE: The document was posted on August 28, 2018 in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s digital library (ADAMS). It does not appear to have been posted by DOE/SRS, which unfortunately and contrary to a sound openness policy does not maintain a digital library of much use to the public. Why does the site not post and distribute documents as a matter of course?
43 (of an original 51) high-level radioactive waste tanks remain operable at SRS and pose a threat to groundwater and public health. Here’s a link to the annual inspection program, which claims that the tanks maintain their “structural integrity and waste confinement capability.”
“Conclusion
The conditions of the 43 tanks remained essentially unchanged from the conditions reported in 2016. The one key exception was the identification of two new cracks in the Tank 15 primary tank wall. These newly identified cracks were located at 30 inches and 160 inches above the tank bottom. The 2017 inspection program confirmed the structural integrity and waste confinement capability of all 43 waste tanks currently in services for waste storage at SRS.”