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Title: Hanford Sludge Simulant Selection for Soil Mechanics Property Measurement

Abstract

The current System Plan for the Hanford Tank Farms uses relaxed buoyant displacement gas release event (BDGRE) controls for deep sludge (i.e., high level waste [HLW]) tanks, which allows the tank farms to use more storage space, i.e., increase the sediment depth, in some of the double-shell tanks (DSTs). The relaxed BDGRE controls are based on preliminary analysis of a gas release model from van Kessel and van Kesteren. Application of the van Kessel and van Kesteren model requires parametric information for the sediment, including the lateral earth pressure at rest and shear modulus. No lateral earth pressure at rest and shear modulus in situ measurements for Hanford sludge are currently available. The two chemical sludge simulants will be used in follow-on work to experimentally measure the van Kessel and van Kesteren model parameters, lateral earth pressure at rest, and shear modulus.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
986706
Report Number(s):
PNNL-19250
830403000; TRN: US1006623
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; HANFORD RESERVATION; SLUDGES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; DEGASSING; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; STORAGE FACILITIES; SHEAR PROPERTIES

Citation Formats

Wells, Beric E, Russell, Renee L, Mahoney, Lenna A, Brown, Garrett N, Rinehart, Donald E, Buchmiller, William C, Golovich, Elizabeth C, and Crum, Jarrod V. Hanford Sludge Simulant Selection for Soil Mechanics Property Measurement. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.2172/986706.
Wells, Beric E, Russell, Renee L, Mahoney, Lenna A, Brown, Garrett N, Rinehart, Donald E, Buchmiller, William C, Golovich, Elizabeth C, & Crum, Jarrod V. Hanford Sludge Simulant Selection for Soil Mechanics Property Measurement. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/986706
Wells, Beric E, Russell, Renee L, Mahoney, Lenna A, Brown, Garrett N, Rinehart, Donald E, Buchmiller, William C, Golovich, Elizabeth C, and Crum, Jarrod V. 2010. "Hanford Sludge Simulant Selection for Soil Mechanics Property Measurement". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/986706. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/986706.
@article{osti_986706,
title = {Hanford Sludge Simulant Selection for Soil Mechanics Property Measurement},
author = {Wells, Beric E and Russell, Renee L and Mahoney, Lenna A and Brown, Garrett N and Rinehart, Donald E and Buchmiller, William C and Golovich, Elizabeth C and Crum, Jarrod V},
abstractNote = {The current System Plan for the Hanford Tank Farms uses relaxed buoyant displacement gas release event (BDGRE) controls for deep sludge (i.e., high level waste [HLW]) tanks, which allows the tank farms to use more storage space, i.e., increase the sediment depth, in some of the double-shell tanks (DSTs). The relaxed BDGRE controls are based on preliminary analysis of a gas release model from van Kessel and van Kesteren. Application of the van Kessel and van Kesteren model requires parametric information for the sediment, including the lateral earth pressure at rest and shear modulus. No lateral earth pressure at rest and shear modulus in situ measurements for Hanford sludge are currently available. The two chemical sludge simulants will be used in follow-on work to experimentally measure the van Kessel and van Kesteren model parameters, lateral earth pressure at rest, and shear modulus.},
doi = {10.2172/986706},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/986706}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
}