Technologies in use and in development for surplus facility decommissioning and recycling under environmental restoration
DOE has identified more than 700 surplus contaminated facilities requiring decommissioning, and the inventory of facilities requiring decommissioning continues to increase. These facilities contain radionuclide, hazardous, mixed and special contaminants. These facilities require a variety of decommissioning methods, including characterization, decontamination, dismantling, segmentation, and demolition. This paper describes recent experience with and development initiatives of three categories of decommissioning technologies: concrete decontamination, dismantlement and handling, and metal recycling. Six recent decommissioning projects are used to highlight the use of, and challenges overcome with, current technologies in these three categories. These projects are Plant 7 at Fernald, Ohio; the Electrochemical Machining Area of the Alpha-4 Production Facility at the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Special Metallurgical Building at the Mound Production Plant, Ohio; the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory-East, Illinois; the Animal Hospital Buildings at the Laboratory for Energy-related Health Research, California; and the Hanford 185/190-B Building in Hanford, Washington.
- OSTI ID:
- 225539
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950917-; ISBN 0-7918-1219-7; TRN: IM9621%%469
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international conference on radioactive waste management and environmental remediation, Berlin (Germany), 3-9 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Fifth international conference on radioactive waste management and environmental remediation -- ICEM `95: Proceedings. Volume 2: Management of low-level waste and remediation of contaminated sites and facilities; Slate, S.; Baker, R.; Benda, G. [eds.]; PB: 911 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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