Twenty-third DOE/NRC nuclear air-cleaning and treatment conference
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:103242
The Twenty-Third Department of Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission (DOE/NRC) Nuclear Air-Cleaning and Treatment Conference was held July 25-28, 1994, in Buffalo, New York. The conference was also sponsored by the Harvard Air-Cleaning Laboratory and the International Society of Nuclear Air Treatment Technologies, a nonprofit organization founded to promote technology transfer in the nuclear air-cleaning and treatment area. A total of 192 air-cleaning specialists attended the conference. The United States and 11 foreign countries were represented. The specialists are affiliated with all aspects of the nuclear industry, including government agencies, educational institutions, utilities, architect-engineers, equipment suppliers, and consultants. The high level of international interest is evident from the 40% of papers sponsored by foreign interests. More than 20% of the attendees as well as several members of the Program Committee were from outside the United States. Major topics discussed at this conference included nuclear air-cleaning codes and standards, waste disposal, particulate filter developments (including testing and performance under stress and after aging), sampling and monitoring of process and effluent streams, off-gasses from fuel reprocessing, adsorbents and adsorption, accident control and analysis, and revised source terms for power-plant accidents. A highlight of the conference concerned operations at the DOE facility at West Valley, New York, where construction is under way to solidify radioactive waste. A recurrent theme throughout the the sessions was that, in spite of the large number of guidance documents available in the form of regulations, codes, standards, and directives, multiple difficulties arise when all are invoked simultaneously. Gas processing needs, rather than controls for civilian power plants, will provide the principal challenge during the next decade for the air-cleaning specialists of the world.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 103242
- Report Number(s):
- TPJ-NS--36-No.1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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