Argonne-West facility requirements for a radioactive waste treatment demonstration
Abstract
At Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W), near Idaho Falls, Idaho, facilities that were originally constructed to support the development of liquid-metal reactor technology are being used and/or modified to meet the environmental and waste management research needs of DOE. One example is the use of an Argonne-West facility to conduct a radioactive waste treatment demonstration through a cooperative project with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company. The Plasma Hearth Process (PBP) project will utilize commercially-adapted plasma arc technology to demonstrate treatment of actual mixed waste. The demonstration on radioactive waste will be conducted at Argonne`s Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT). Utilization of an existing facility for a new and different application presents a unique set of issues in meeting applicable federal state, and local requirements as well as the additional constraints imposed by DOE Orders and ANL-W site requirements. This paper briefly describes the PHP radioactive demonstrations relevant to the interfaces with the TREAT facility. Safety, environmental design, and operational considerations pertinent to the PHP radioactive demonstration are specifically addressed herein. The personnel equipment, and facility interfaces associated with a radioactive waste treatment demonstration are an important aspect of the demonstration effort. Areas requiring significant effort inmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 46589
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/TD/CP-84268; CONF-950216-108
ON: DE95008291; TRN: 95:010903
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste management `95, Tucson, AZ (United States), 26 Feb - 2 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; ANL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; PLASMA HEATING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; EQUIPMENT INTERFACES; MIXTURES; DESIGN; EXHAUST SYSTEMS; COOLING SYSTEMS; PLANNING
Citation Formats
Dwight, C C, Felicione, F S, Black, D B, Kelso, R B, and McClellan, G C. Argonne-West facility requirements for a radioactive waste treatment demonstration. United States: N. p., 1995.
Web.
Dwight, C C, Felicione, F S, Black, D B, Kelso, R B, & McClellan, G C. Argonne-West facility requirements for a radioactive waste treatment demonstration. United States.
Dwight, C C, Felicione, F S, Black, D B, Kelso, R B, and McClellan, G C. 1995.
"Argonne-West facility requirements for a radioactive waste treatment demonstration". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/46589.
@article{osti_46589,
title = {Argonne-West facility requirements for a radioactive waste treatment demonstration},
author = {Dwight, C C and Felicione, F S and Black, D B and Kelso, R B and McClellan, G C},
abstractNote = {At Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W), near Idaho Falls, Idaho, facilities that were originally constructed to support the development of liquid-metal reactor technology are being used and/or modified to meet the environmental and waste management research needs of DOE. One example is the use of an Argonne-West facility to conduct a radioactive waste treatment demonstration through a cooperative project with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company. The Plasma Hearth Process (PBP) project will utilize commercially-adapted plasma arc technology to demonstrate treatment of actual mixed waste. The demonstration on radioactive waste will be conducted at Argonne`s Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT). Utilization of an existing facility for a new and different application presents a unique set of issues in meeting applicable federal state, and local requirements as well as the additional constraints imposed by DOE Orders and ANL-W site requirements. This paper briefly describes the PHP radioactive demonstrations relevant to the interfaces with the TREAT facility. Safety, environmental design, and operational considerations pertinent to the PHP radioactive demonstration are specifically addressed herein. The personnel equipment, and facility interfaces associated with a radioactive waste treatment demonstration are an important aspect of the demonstration effort. Areas requiring significant effort in preparation for the PBP Project being conducted at the TREAT facility include confinement design, waste handling features, and sampling and analysis considerations. Information about the facility in which a radioactive demonstration will be conducted, specifically Argonne`s TREAT facility in the case of PHP, may be of interest to other organizations involved in developing and demonstrating technologies for mixed waste treatment.},
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year = {Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1995},
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