Probabilistic safety assessment for Hanford high-level waste tanks

Journal Article · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:411536

MacFarlane, D R; Stack, D S ^[1]; Kindinger, J P; Deremer, R K ^[2]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (United States)
2. PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (United States)

This paper gives results from the first comprehensive level-3 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), including consideration of external events, for the Hanford tank farm (HTF). This work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy/Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Division (DOE/EM). At the HTF, there are 177 underground tanks in 18 separate tank farms containing accumulated liquid/sludge/saltcake radioactive wastes from 50 yr of weapons materials production activities. The total waste volume is {approximately}60 million gal, containing {approximately}200 million Ci of radioactivity.

• OSTI ID: 411536
• Report Number(s): CONF-951006-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 97:000789
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 73; Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), San Francisco, CA (United States), 29 Oct - 1 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
RADIATION ACCIDENTS
PROBABILITY
AIR
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
TANKS
SAFETY
HANFORD RESERVATION
SOURCE TERMS
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
SIMULATION
RISK ASSESSMENT