The design of a relocatable confinement building and decontamination module to facilitate D and D of Hanford`s Plutonium Concentration Facility
- Kaiser Engineers Hanford Co., WA (United States)
In 1963 a chemical reaction within the ion exchange tower caused a fire within hanford`s 233-S Plutonium Concentration Facility. The fire caused gross contamination throughout the facility. Shortly thereafter, officials made a decision to attempt to fix the alpha contamination and abandon the facility and its 1,200 grams inventory of plutonium. In 1992, Kaiser Engineers Hanford and Westinghouse Hanford Company began the planning and conceptual design of a confinement building to enclose the former Plutonium Concentration Facility. This relocatable confinement building is a first of a kind for a US Department of Energy decommissioning project. The confinement building will measure 38 meters by 38 meters by 19 meters high. Complete with personnel and equipment airlocks, atmospheric controls and a decontamination process module, the confinement structure is envisioned as the benchmark of many of DOE`s future decontamination and decommissioning projects. The design features of this confinement building and the planned decommissioning sequences will be presented in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 106292
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930906-; ISBN 0-7918-0691-X; TRN: 95:020771
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: `93 international conference on nuclear waste management and environmental remediation, Prague (Czech Republic), 5-11 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1993 international conference on nuclear waste management and environmental remediation. Volume 2: High level radioactive waste and spent fuel management; Ahlstroem, P.E.; Chapman, C.C.; Kohout, R.; Marek, J. [eds.]; PB: 853 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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