High Level Waste Tank Closure Modeling with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Waste removal from 49 underground storage tanks located in two tank farms involves three steps: bulk waste removal, water washing to remove residual waste, and in some cases chemical cleaning to remove additional residual waste. Not all waste can be completely removed by these processes-resulting in some residual waste loading following cleaning. Completely removing this residual waste would be prohibitively expensive; therefore, it will be stabilized by filling the tanks with grout. Acceptable residual waste loading inventories were determined using one-dimensional groundwater transport modeling to predict future human exposure based on several scenarios. These modeling results have been incorporated into a geographic information systems (GIS) application for rapid evaluation of various tank closure options.
- Research Organization:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-96SR18500
- OSTI ID:
- 827205
- Report Number(s):
- WSRC-MS-2004-00434; TRN: US0406938
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Columbus, OH (US), 11/14/2004--11/18/2004; Other Information: PBD: 29 Jul 2004; PBD: 29 Jul 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
CLEANING
CLOSURES
EVALUATION
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INVENTORIES
REMOVAL
SIMULATION
STORAGE FACILITIES
TANKS
TRANSPORT
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
WASHING
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
WASTE RETRIEVAL
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
GROUTING
GIS
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
HWL