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Title: F Reactor Inspection

Abstract

Workers from Mission Support Alliance, LLC., removed the welds around the steel door of the F Reactor before stepping inside the reactor to complete its periodic inspection. This is the first time the Department of Energy (DOE) has had the reactor open since 2008. The F Reactor is one of nine reactors along the Columbia River at the Department's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State, where environmental cleanup has been ongoing since 1989. As part of the Tri-Party Agreement, the Department completes surveillance and maintenance activities of cocooned reactors periodically to evaluate the structural integrity of the safe storage enclosure and to ensure confinement of any remaining hazardous materials. "This entry marks a transition of sorts because the Hanford Long-Term Stewardship Program, for the first time, was responsible for conducting the entry and surveillance and maintenance activities," said Keith Grindstaff, Energy Department Long-Term Stewardship Program Manager. "As the River Corridor cleanup work is completed and transitioned to long-term stewardship, our program will manage any on-going requirements."

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Hanford Site (HNF), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1164319
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR; HANFORD SITE; MAINTENANCE; STEWARDSHIP; COCOONED; F REACTOR; PLUTONIUM; MANHATTAN PROJECT; INTERIM SAFE STORAGE

Citation Formats

Grindstaff, Keith, Hathaway, Boyd, and Wilson, Mike. F Reactor Inspection. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Grindstaff, Keith, Hathaway, Boyd, & Wilson, Mike. F Reactor Inspection. United States.
Grindstaff, Keith, Hathaway, Boyd, and Wilson, Mike. 2014. "F Reactor Inspection". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1164319.
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title = {F Reactor Inspection},
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abstractNote = {Workers from Mission Support Alliance, LLC., removed the welds around the steel door of the F Reactor before stepping inside the reactor to complete its periodic inspection. This is the first time the Department of Energy (DOE) has had the reactor open since 2008. The F Reactor is one of nine reactors along the Columbia River at the Department's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State, where environmental cleanup has been ongoing since 1989. As part of the Tri-Party Agreement, the Department completes surveillance and maintenance activities of cocooned reactors periodically to evaluate the structural integrity of the safe storage enclosure and to ensure confinement of any remaining hazardous materials. "This entry marks a transition of sorts because the Hanford Long-Term Stewardship Program, for the first time, was responsible for conducting the entry and surveillance and maintenance activities," said Keith Grindstaff, Energy Department Long-Term Stewardship Program Manager. "As the River Corridor cleanup work is completed and transitioned to long-term stewardship, our program will manage any on-going requirements."},
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year = {Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
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