Accessing CID Data | Defining Your Topic | Selecting a Report Type | Selecting a Report | CID data are accessed using the reports available on this web site. There are three basic types of CID reports: "Ready-to-Read" reports - are pre-generated reports. These reports are in PDF format and can be downloaded or printed using an Adobe Acrobat reader. Most Ready to Read reports concern radioactive waste and/or ex-situ contaminated media. There are 12 Ready to Read reports in the CID. "Standard" reports - are pre-formatted reports that allow the user to select criteria (i.e., sites, waste type, year range, etc.) using a series of selection screens. Standard reports are dynamically generated and allow the user to customize the report output. Each CID data source is represented in the Standard Report menu. There are 58 Standard reports in the CID and each of these reports is available in either PDF or Excel Spreadsheet format. "User-Defined" reports - are custom reports created using the CID's User-Defined Report Tool. This tool allows users to query the CID database and customize the report output and format. Users can easily access CID reports using the Report type links on the CID Home Page or the CID Menu. The links for Ready to Read reports and Standard reports will take users to report menus, while the User-Defined report link will take users to the User-Defined report tool. However, before going to the different report menus, it is important to take time to define your topic and to determine what report type best meets your needs. To efficiently find the CID report that meets your needs, it helps to define your topic using the terminology of the CID. To begin this process you need to become familiar with the key terms of the CID. This is particularly true for the reports based on the EM Corporate Database. Understanding the difference in meaning between terms such as radioactive waste and ex-situ contaminated media is critical to understanding the organization and data of these reports. While all key terms are captured in the CID Glossary, the definition of some of the most important terms are provided in the Key Terms section on the right. Types of DOE Information in the CID Actual and Projected Volumes of Radioactive Waste, Contaminated Media, and Spent Nuclear Fuel; Inventory, Generation, Treatment, and Disposal Volumes for Radioactive Waste and Contaminated Media; Radioactive Waste/Contaminated Media/Spent Nuclear Characteristic Data (isotopes/contaminants/radioactivity) Radioactive Waste, Contaminated Media, and Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping and Receiving Volumes Radioactive Waste and Contaminated Media Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Systems (TSDs) Operational Status, Use, Type, Size, and Hazard Category Group of Facilities Non-Radioactive Hazardous Waste generation (Pollution Prevention) Annual Toxic Release Inventory reporting Materials in Inventory by MIN Category and Sub-Category With exception of the Materials in Inventory (MIN) reports, the data available in CID reports are updated annually when new data are available from DOE. See the What's New section for the most recent data update. Please note that the year of the data in the CID typically refers to the fiscal year. After you define your topic, you need to begin your report search by selecting a report type. Below are some guidelines for selecting the report type that is likely to have the report that best fits your needs: Ready to Read Report users: These users are mainly interested in quickly getting high-level radioactive waste and contaminated media data for the most current year of data. They want to obtain information very quickly and may have little experience using on-line query tools Standard Report users: These users are concerned with data about specific sites and management activities. They want detailed information for all the CID data sources and they want the ability to specify the report output. Typically these users are familiar with terminology of the CID and are comfortable using on-line query tools. Standard Reports are generally the best source of information for most CID users. User-Defined Report users: These users want the ability to customize the format and output of CID reports. They have a detailed understanding of both CID data and terminology. In general these persons are experienced CID users and are very familiar with on-line query tools. After you select a report type, you can begin to look for reports in the respective report menus. Below is a summary of the kinds of reports in the report menus. Use the summary and the included tips to find the report that best addresses your topic. Ready-To-Read Reports Current Year Reports - Reports containing data for the most recent year available in the CID database (which may not be the current calendar year). Select from 5 current year reports covering waste generation, waste and contaminated media inventories by site, program or year, and current year shipping and receiving activity. Projected Years Reports - Reports containing projections of how much waste and spent nuclear fuel (SNF) will be generated at DOE sites, and how much actual and projected waste is in inventory at DOE sites. Two reports are available. Profile Reports - These are very powerful and easy reports to use. Two profile reports allow you to get a summary report by either a DOE site name (e.g., Los Alamos, Rocky Flats, etc.), or DOE program area (e.g., environmental management, defense programs, etc.). Simply select your choice from the available drop down menus and run the report. The two other available CID profile reports provide you a summary of data by either DOE operational office or waste management activities. In addition to data reports, the CID also includes text reports that augment information in the CID. There are currently two text reports available in the CID: Buried Transuranic Waste (Buried TRU) Report - A copy of the June, 2000 report titled "Buried Transuranic-Contaminated Waste Information for the U.S. Department of Energy Facilities". Summary Data on the Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Contaminated Media Managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (April, 2001) - Provides a collection of summary data on the quantity and location of spent nuclear fuel , radioactive waste, 11e(2) byproduct material, contaminated media, and non-radioactive waste in a text report. Both reports can be accessed from the Ready-to-Read Report menu. The Buried TRU report can also be available in the Standard Report menu. The text reports required a free adobe acrobat reader to read and print. Note: some text reports are large and may take a long time to load or print at slow Internet connection speeds. Standard Reports Radioactive Waste, Contaminated Media, Combined Radioactive Waste and Contaminated Media, and Spent Nuclear Fuel Reports - There are many reports available under these categories. However, most these reports fall under three basic sub-categories: Management activity quantity reports - These reports cover a specific process that results in the addition, treatment, or disposal of waste, contaminated media or spent nuclear fuel. Shipping and receiving quantity reports - These reports present data on the amount of Radioactive Waste, Contaminated Media, or Spent Nuclear Fuel that are either shipped or received at DOE sites. Waste/material characteristic reports - These reports provide information about individual radioactive waste, contaminated media, or spent nuclear fuel waste streams. An example of the type of information found in these reports are the individual isotopes and chemical constituents that make up a waste stream. Facility Reports - Select from three reports. Facility reports contain information on DOE real property holdings such as their operational status, type, hazard category group status, size and current use. Non-Radioactive Waste Reports - These reports provide information on the generation of non-radioactive hazardous and sanitary waste. Select from two reports that use data collected for DOE's Pollution Prevention Program. One report is for non-radioactive waste and the other is for non-radioactive sanitary waste. Toxic Chemical Release Inventory (TRI) Reports - These reports contain DOE submissions to the EPA in accordance with Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Information includes routine and accidental releases of toxic chemicals into the air, water, and land as well as the amount contained in wastes treated, recycled, or burned for energy recovery onsite and offsite. Select from two reports. Materials in Inventory Reports - These reports provide information collected for the 1996 report Taking Stock: A Look at Opportunities and Challenges Posed by Inventories From the Cold War Era (also referred to as the MIN Report). Materials in Inventory (MIN) are defined by DOE as "materials that are not currently in use, that have not been designated as waste, and that have not been set aside for national defense purposes". Select from two reports: One report is organized by site while the other is organized by MIN material category. For each individual Standard Report, there is a brief report description underneath the report title. For more information or to generate the report, use the icons to the left of the report titles. - click to get a detailed report description - click to get a report preview - click to start the report generation process User-Defined Reports The CID's Users Defined Report (UDR) tool allows users to customize report formats and outputs. There are six basic steps to generate the reports with the UDR. Select the Topic. The five topics in the UDR represent the five basic data sources for the CID. Select the Sub-topic. To help focus the scope of the user-defined reports, the UDR offers sub-topic for some topic. Select the Report Content. This step allows users to organize the columns and rows of the report and specify the manner in which the data is displayed. Organize the Report. This step allows users to organize the manner in which the data is displayed. Select Filters. The filters allows the users to query the database and specify the outputs of their report. Data elements do not have to be part of the report content to be used as filters. Format Report. The users can add report headers and gridlines to the reports, and select the report output formats. Click the "report generate" button to produce the report.

Radioactive Waste: Waste that contains radionuclides (nuclei of atoms that posses properties of spontaneous disintegration - radioactivity). Radioactive Waste Types: Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLW): is radioactive waste, including accelerator-produced waste, that is not high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, by product material (as defined in section 11e.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954), or naturally occurring radioactive material (DOE Order 435.1) Mixed Low-Level Waste (MLLW): is defined as LLW determined to contain both a hazardous component subject to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended, and a radioactive component subject to the Atomic Energy Act (DOE Order 435. 1). High Level Waste (HLW): The highly radioactive waste material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that is determined, consistent with existing law, to require permanent isolation. (DOE Order 435.1) High-Level Vitrified Waste (HLW-Vitrified): High-level waste that has been stabilized (chemically converted to a less harmful form) through a vitrification process (i.e., by mixing it with molten glass). The glass mixture is poured into cylindrical metal canisters, where it hardens. Transuranic Waste (TRU): is radioactive waste containing more than 100 nanocuries of alpha-emitting transuranic isotopes per gram of waste, with half-lives greater than 20 years. The term transuranic means those elements with an atomic number greater than that of uranium (i.e., atomic number > 92). (DOE Order 435. 1) Contaminated Media: Contaminated environmental media are materials such as soil, sediment, surface water, groundwater, and others (e.g., sludge and rubble/debris that are intermixed with media) that are contaminated at levels requiring cleanup or require further assessment to determine whether an environmental restoration action is warranted. Ex-Situ Contaminated Media: Contaminated environmental media that have been or are planned to be remediated by: 1) excavating or otherwise removing the contaminated media from the ground/environment; 2) treating when appropriate; and 3) disposing of these media either back in their initial location after treatment or in a specifically designed facility that isolates the media from the environment. In-Situ Contaminated Media: Contaminated environmental media that have been or are likely to be remediated, without excavation, by using strategies that destroy, isolate, or prevent any further spread of contaminants into the surrounding environment (e.g., in-situ treatment, capping in place, institutional controls). The majority of CID reports refer to "ex-situ" contaminated media. Go to report CM-10 for information about in-situ contaminated media. Combined Radioactive Waste/Contaminated Media: a combination of Radioactive waste and /Contaminated Media. Spent Nuclear Fuel: Fuel that has been permanently withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, but has not been processed to remove its constituent elements. Management Activities: Many of the CID reports present volumes associated with management activities. These management activities include treatment, generation, process outputs, and disposal. Click here to see a graphic overview of the relationship of DOE material management activities. Generation: The origination of new waste from various facility operations (including production, decontamination and decommissioning, and rework). New generation data do not include additional volumes that result from treatment processes or volumes transferred between sites. "Generation" of ex-situ contaminated media has a different meaning: It is not the origination of new contaminated media, but rather the excavation of contaminated media as part of a remedial action. By definition, in-situ contaminated media is never generated because it is contaminated media remediated without excavation. For in-situ contaminated media, DOE sites report the current year's total estimated volume (entered as an average or a range). Process Outputs: A quantity of waste/media/spent nuclear fuel that is created from treatment processes or other management activities. These quantities are often referred to as "secondary wastes". The CID distinguishes these amounts from quantities of waste that are newly generated from ongoing program activities. Treatment: Any method, technique, or process designed to change the physical or chemical character of waste to render it less hazardous; safer to transport, store, or dispose; or reduce its volume. Receipts: A quantity that shows the amount of waste/media/spent nuclear fuel a site receives from another site. Disposal: A particular management activity for a waste/media stream where the waste is emplaced in a manner that ensures protection of human health and the environment within prescribed limits for the foreseeable future. For waste/media that has undergone disposal, there is no intent of retrieval and deliberate action is required to regain access to the waste. Facility: A facility is defined as buildings, land, other structures and facilities (OSFs), and trailers/modulars/containers that are owned or leased by DOE. Excess Facility: A facility that is no longer required for the conduct of DOE missions because of inadequacy/age, lack of funding, or changing mission priorities, but has not yet been transferred to the Office of Environmental Management (EM) management. In the CID, "Facility Excessed" indicates whether the Field Office/Site has designated the property as excess now or will be excess in the future. It is not intended to indicate that the Office of Field Integration in accordance with the DOE requirements has formally declared the property excess. Hazard Category Group: Identifies facilities that contain or handle radioactive and/or chemical materials. For the purposes of the CID, facilities with a "Radiological" Hazard Category Group are broadly defined to include those facilities that meet the definition for either Nuclear Facility Category 1, Nuclear Facility Category 2, Nuclear Facility Category 3, or Radiological Facility as defined in DOE Standard 1027-92. Facilities with a "Chemical Hazard" Hazard Category Group are those that contain quantities of chemicals that exceed the threshold quantity for those chemicals as defined by OSHA's Chemical Process Safety regulation 29 CFR 1910.119, Appendix A. Facilities with a "Radiological and Chemical Hazard" Hazard Category Group are those that meet the Radiological and Chemical Hazard definition. The Hazard Category Group of "Not Applicable" refers to facilities that do not meet either the Radiological or Chemical Hazard definition. "No Information Provided" is listed for a facility when no information pertaining to the Hazard Category Group is available. Non-Radioactive Hazardous Waste: Any solid waste or combination of solid wastes, which do not contain radionuclides of any type and, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may: 1) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or 2) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.