DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MATERIAL FROM THE RADLAB DOE/ERSP PROCEDURE NO. 7 APPROVED: I. DATE DRAFTED: 31 January 1978 4 March 1978 by John D. Stewart (ERSP Manager) Purpose To establish a standard procedure for disposal of radioactive waste material from the RADLAB. IL. Applicability This standard operating procedure applies to radioactive materials that are required to be used in the lab during its normal course of performing laboratory support for the Enewetak cleanup, Ill. Responsibility The Eberline laboratory manager is responsible to the ERSP to ensure that the lab personnel comply with this SOP. IV. General Radioactive waste materials are generated in the laboratory during the normal course of sample processing. These waste materials must be disposed of in a safe manner. The radioactive waste will be in two forms (solutions & solids), each requiring a different consideration for disposal. Vv. Procedure A. Radioactive Solutions. Small amounts of radioactive solutions will be generated by: 1. Remaining portions of samples after chemistry. 2. Materials used as tracers. 3. Organic materials used in sample processing. All radioactive materials in solutions except organics will be washed out the drain system. The amount of water (approximately 100 gallons/day) that is used will dilute the concentrations to levels that are well below MPCs for drinking water. See following text for calculation of level. Periodic samples will be taken from the acid neutralizing tank to verify this assumption. Organic liquid waste will be transferred to a 55-gallon drum and vermiculite added as an absorbent material. B. C. Solid Material. 1. All disposable materials generated from the preparation lab will be disposed of in a yellow 55-gallon drum marked RAD WASTE. 2. All glassware pipette tips and other disposable materials will be collected in a 55-gallon drum marked RAD WASTE. 3. These drums will then be handed over to FRST Rad Control for disposal. Concentraton of Waste Water. 1. Assumptions: a. Sixteen samples per day through laboratory with 8 Pu and 8 Am analyses. A-?-1