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Title: Final report of the systems engineering technical advisory board for the Tank Waste Remediation Program

Abstract

The Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) is one segment of the environmental restoration program at the Hanford site. The scope is to retrieve the contents of both the single shell and double shell tanks and process the wastes into forms acceptable for long term storage and/or permanent disposal. The quantity of radioactive waste in tanks is significantly larger and substantially more complex in composition than the radioactive waste stored in tanks at other DOE sites. The waste is stored in 149 single shell tanks and 28 double shell tanks. The waste was produced over a period from the mid 1940s to the present. The single shell tanks have exceeded their design life and are experiencing failures. The oldest of the double shell tanks are approaching their design life. Spar double shell tank waste volume is limited. The priorities in the Board`s view are to manage safely the waste tank farms, accelerate emptying of waste tanks, provide spare tank capacity and assure a high degree of confidence in performance of the TWRS integrated program. At its present design capacity, the glass vitrification plant (HWVP) will require a period of about 15 years to empty the double shell tanks; the addition ofmore » the waste in single shell tanks adds another 100 years. There is an urgent need to initiate now a well focused and centralized development and engineering program on both larger glass melters and advanced separations processes that reduce radioactive constituents in the low-level waste (LLW). The Board presents its conclusions and has other suggestions for the management plan. The Board reviews planning schedules for accelerating the TWRS program.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10179607
Report Number(s):
WHC-MR-0406
ON: DE93018731; TRN: 93:019003
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-87RL10930
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; HANFORD RESERVATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PROGRESS REPORT; TANKS; REMEDIAL ACTION; VITRIFICATION; GLASS; PLANNING; 052000; 540250; WASTE MANAGEMENT; SITE RESOURCE AND USE STUDIES

Citation Formats

Baranowski, F P, Goodlett, C B, Beard, S J, Duckworth, J P, Schneider, A, and Zahn, L L. Final report of the systems engineering technical advisory board for the Tank Waste Remediation Program. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10179607.
Baranowski, F P, Goodlett, C B, Beard, S J, Duckworth, J P, Schneider, A, & Zahn, L L. Final report of the systems engineering technical advisory board for the Tank Waste Remediation Program. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10179607
Baranowski, F P, Goodlett, C B, Beard, S J, Duckworth, J P, Schneider, A, and Zahn, L L. 1993. "Final report of the systems engineering technical advisory board for the Tank Waste Remediation Program". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10179607. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10179607.
@article{osti_10179607,
title = {Final report of the systems engineering technical advisory board for the Tank Waste Remediation Program},
author = {Baranowski, F P and Goodlett, C B and Beard, S J and Duckworth, J P and Schneider, A and Zahn, L L},
abstractNote = {The Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) is one segment of the environmental restoration program at the Hanford site. The scope is to retrieve the contents of both the single shell and double shell tanks and process the wastes into forms acceptable for long term storage and/or permanent disposal. The quantity of radioactive waste in tanks is significantly larger and substantially more complex in composition than the radioactive waste stored in tanks at other DOE sites. The waste is stored in 149 single shell tanks and 28 double shell tanks. The waste was produced over a period from the mid 1940s to the present. The single shell tanks have exceeded their design life and are experiencing failures. The oldest of the double shell tanks are approaching their design life. Spar double shell tank waste volume is limited. The priorities in the Board`s view are to manage safely the waste tank farms, accelerate emptying of waste tanks, provide spare tank capacity and assure a high degree of confidence in performance of the TWRS integrated program. At its present design capacity, the glass vitrification plant (HWVP) will require a period of about 15 years to empty the double shell tanks; the addition of the waste in single shell tanks adds another 100 years. There is an urgent need to initiate now a well focused and centralized development and engineering program on both larger glass melters and advanced separations processes that reduce radioactive constituents in the low-level waste (LLW). The Board presents its conclusions and has other suggestions for the management plan. The Board reviews planning schedules for accelerating the TWRS program.},
doi = {10.2172/10179607},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10179607}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
}