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Title: Management Of Hanford KW Basin Knockout Pot Sludge As Spent Nuclear Fuel

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OSTI ID:1059488
 [1];  [2]
  1. CH2M HIll Plateau Remediation Company, Richland, WA (United States)
  2. AREVA, Avignon (France)

CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) and AREVA Federal Services, LLC (AFS) have been working collaboratively to develop and deploy technologies to remove, transport, and interim store remote-handled sludge from the 10S-K West Reactor Fuel Storage Basin on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site near Richland, WA, USA. Two disposal paths exist for the different types of sludge found in the K West (KW) Basin. One path is to be managed as Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) with eventual disposal at an SNF at a yet to be licensed repository. The second path will be disposed as remote-handled transuranic (RH-TRU) waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, NM. This paper describes the systems developed and executed by the Knockout Pot (KOP) Disposition Subproject for processing and interim storage of the sludge managed as SNF, (i.e., KOP material).

Research Organization:
Hanford Site (HNF), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC06-08RL14788
OSTI ID:
1059488
Report Number(s):
PRC-STP-00740-FP REV 0; TRN: US1300291
Resource Relation:
Conference: Decommissioning Challenges, Industrial Reality and Prospects Conference, Avignon (France), 7-11 Apr 2013
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English