Bagless transfer technology applications in Hanford`s WRAP-1 Facility

Conference · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:10169166

Leist, K J

The Waste Receiving and Processing Facility, under construction at in south-central Washington State. The facility is scheduled to begin operation in 1996. Designed as a joint venture by Raytheon Engineers and Constructors and British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd. (BNFL), its mission is to annually receive more than 6,800 55-gallon drums of both newly generated and retrieved contact-handled solid waste and prepare them for certification and disposal. While 3,800 drums will require only waste acceptance criteria certification using the WRAP-1 NDA/NDE functions, 3,000 drums also will need to be repackaged. The WRAP-1 Facility will use two separate glovebox lines to annually repackage more than 1,500 drums each of transuranic (TRU) and low-level waste (LLW) to meet current disposal guidelines. When complete, WRAP-1 will be the first facility of its kind to perform these tasks on a production scale. Completing this challenging task is made possible by using large-container (drum) bagless transfer technology and state-of-the-art glovebox design.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 10169166
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA--2462; CONF-940815--68; ON: DE94015646; BR: 35AF11201/35AF11202
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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