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Interagency Policy Meeting - Enewetak Cleanup - DNA - 25 February 1975
6.
General Graves resperict ty caving he saw nc ncreblem with the arstcr
disposal.
He ceationed | . c2-caeility of leasing
from the cruter anc
int
the effectiveness of containment within the crater could be a problem.
se added
that ERDA had felt from the very bewinning thac if it were not for the orecna
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it has to be done.
7.
General Johnson next asked "Isn't radioactive material leaking out cf the
creter now?''
It appeared tnut evervene realized that it was.
General Gr .ves
responded "that the enteuctirent of the hazardous material would better an
existing situation, ‘and that he saw the real sensitivity of the method will
surface at some period downstream, a possibility we shouldn't ignore.
he said
would be more of a specific design problem for the entombment than anything
else,
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8.
Dr. Mills, EPA, thought that entombment was the way to go in disposing of
the radioactive debris for two reasons: (1) it would be recoverable fron the
crater, if the need or desire ever arose to do so; (2) FPA was generally noc
in favor of ocean dumping.
He earentheriea lly stated that he was not saving Chat
it was impossible to set an ocean
pins permit, but was pointing out th .t it
would be time consumine and ec
potratively tealous, since prior approved clus
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Ne penticnea that contaminants where claced in the ceep oenun were lost cre.
control,
he rurtner stated thac LPA suis crater disposal as offering tne
feasible way to go since it permits recovery.
lie said they were not asking
for absolute containment; and that there had been some misconception in i'.2
past concerning a requirement for containerization for a period equal to = or
5 half lives of the contaminant dumped.
jie understood that placing the miter tad.
fo.
in the crater couid result in sone contribution from that source which west
an add on to the ERDA dose computations.
He considered that the relative
amount by which the calculated
radiation dose should ve increased would So
exceedingly small, providing his understanding of the scheme for placing the
contaninamtes in the Term cf 2 ecnetete catrin in the crater ves cerresn.
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expreseed the coinien chit tne cr
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would constitute reasenon.e
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containment,
br. Mills said that EPA sees no reason for changing che su ,sj.sred
method of crater entombment.
9.
General Johnson then discussed the increases in both time and cost on t
project if we went to ocean dumping and expressed his desire to lean on the
side of practicality to accomplish the project at an early date.
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10.
Mr. Joe Deal, ERDA, discussed the fact that Mr. Mitchell, the PecpIs's
Counsel, had responded by adopting the most stringent standards in order ~“o
provide room for negotiation and said everything cited by Mitchell had been
addressed in vreat detail in termulatins tne ERDA recommended stanéards.
cited as an exaincie the hard line initialiy tasen by a roreivn power in
“Omeviiat sivirisy situation.