The shipping manifest and waste summary sheet serves two purposes. The first purpose is to document the radioactive waste activity that is removed from the laboratory. This documentation includes the kinds of radioactive waste containers that are removed from the laboratory, as well as the source location for the activity. The second purpose is to fulfill the transportation requirements. These wastes include gloves, absorbent paper, glassware, and other routine labware used in the laboratory that may have come in contact with radiation.
Segregation is required by isotope.
Aqueous Waste Aqueous wastes are generated from routine radiation laboratory procedures. Scintillation Mixed Wastes Scintillation mixed wastes are generated from determinations of radioactivity made by placing laboratory samples in vials containing scintillation fluid. Following analysis, the vials containing waste scintillation fluids are placed directly into twenty gallon fiber drums or three and one-half gallon pails in the laboratory. The RSS transfer the fiber drums and pails to Burt, and the contents are repackaged in fifty-five gallon drums for shipment. The drums are shipped on a routine quarterly schedule by a commercial broker to a licensed facility for final disposal by energy recovery.