Chemical composition of Hanford Tank SY-102
Abstract
The US Department of Energy established the Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) to safely manage and dispose of the radioactive waste, both current and future, stored in double-shell and single-shell tanks at the Hanford sites. One major program element in TWRS is pretreatment which was established to process the waste prior to disposal using the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant. In support of this program, Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a conceptual process flow sheet which will remediate the entire contents of a selected double-shelled underground waste tank, including supernatant and sludge, into forms that allow storage and final disposal in a safe, cost-effective and environmentally sound manner. The specific tank selected for remediation is 241-SY-102 located in the 200 West Area. As part of the flow sheet development effort, the composition of the tank was defined and documented. This database was built by examining the history of liquid waste transfers to the tank and by performing careful analysis of all of the analytical data that have been gathered during the tank`s lifetime. In order to more completely understand the variances in analytical results, material and charge balances were done to help define the chemistry of the various components inmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10107044
- Report Number(s):
- LA-12676-MS
ON: DE94003872; TRN: 94:001426
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Dec 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; HANFORD RESERVATION; COMPILED DATA; TANKS; 052002; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
Citation Formats
Birnbaum, E, Agnew, S, Jarvinen, G, and Yarbro, S. Chemical composition of Hanford Tank SY-102. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web. doi:10.2172/10107044.
Birnbaum, E, Agnew, S, Jarvinen, G, & Yarbro, S. Chemical composition of Hanford Tank SY-102. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10107044
Birnbaum, E, Agnew, S, Jarvinen, G, and Yarbro, S. 1993.
"Chemical composition of Hanford Tank SY-102". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10107044. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10107044.
@article{osti_10107044,
title = {Chemical composition of Hanford Tank SY-102},
author = {Birnbaum, E and Agnew, S and Jarvinen, G and Yarbro, S},
abstractNote = {The US Department of Energy established the Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) to safely manage and dispose of the radioactive waste, both current and future, stored in double-shell and single-shell tanks at the Hanford sites. One major program element in TWRS is pretreatment which was established to process the waste prior to disposal using the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant. In support of this program, Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a conceptual process flow sheet which will remediate the entire contents of a selected double-shelled underground waste tank, including supernatant and sludge, into forms that allow storage and final disposal in a safe, cost-effective and environmentally sound manner. The specific tank selected for remediation is 241-SY-102 located in the 200 West Area. As part of the flow sheet development effort, the composition of the tank was defined and documented. This database was built by examining the history of liquid waste transfers to the tank and by performing careful analysis of all of the analytical data that have been gathered during the tank`s lifetime. In order to more completely understand the variances in analytical results, material and charge balances were done to help define the chemistry of the various components in the tank. This methodology of defining the tank composition and the final results are documented in this report.},
doi = {10.2172/10107044},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10107044},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
}