A One System Integrated Approach to Simulant Selection for Hanford High Level Waste Mixing and Sampling Tests
- Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC, Richland, WA (United States)
- URS, Richland, WA (United States)
The Hanford Tank Operations Contractor (TOC) and the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractor are both engaged in demonstrating mixing, sampling, and transfer system capabilities using simulated Hanford High-Level Waste (HLW) formulations. This represents one of the largest remaining technical issues with the high-level waste treatment mission at Hanford. Previous testing has focused on very specific TOC or WTP test objectives and consequently the simulants were narrowly focused on those test needs. A key attribute in the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 2010-2 is to ensure testing is performed with a simulant that represents the broad spectrum of Hanford waste. The One System Integrated Project Team is a new joint TOC and WTP organization intended to ensure technical integration of specific TOC and WTP systems and testing. A new approach to simulant definition has been mutually developed that will meet both TOC and WTP test objectives for the delivery and receipt of HLW. The process used to identify critical simulant characteristics, incorporate lessons learned from previous testing, and identify specific simulant targets that ensure TOC and WTP testing addresses the broad spectrum of Hanford waste characteristics that are important to mixing, sampling, and transfer performance are described.
- Research Organization:
- Hanford Site (HNF), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC27-08RV14800
- OSTI ID:
- 1060933
- Report Number(s):
- WRPS-54427-FP-Rev.0; TRN: US1300214
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2013 Waste Management Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 24-28 Feb 2013
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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