Duke Power`s liquid radwaste processing improvement efforts

Technical Report · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:133025

Baker, Jr, R E ^[1]; Bramblett, J W ^[2]

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1. Duke Power Company, Huntersville, NC (United States)
2. Duke Power Company, Charlotte, NC (United States)

The rising cost of processing liquid radwaste and industry efforts to reduce offsite isotopic contributions has drawn greater attention to the liquid radwaste area. Because of economic pressures to reduce cost and simultaneously improve performance, Duke Power has undertaken a wide ranging effort to cost effectively achieve improvements in the liquid radwaste processing area. Duke Power has achieved significant reductions over recent years in the release of curies to the environment from the Liquid Radwaste Treatmentt systems at its Catawba, McGuire, and Oconee stations. System wide site curie reductions of 78% have been achieved in a 3 year period. These curie reductions have been achieved while simultaneously reducing the amount of media used to accomplish treatment. The curie and media usage reductions have been achieved at low capital cost expenditures. A large number of approaches and projects have been used to achieve these curie and media usage reductions. This paper will describe the various projects and the associated results for Duke Power`s processing improvement efforts. The subjects/projects which will be described include: (1) Cooperative philosophy between stations (2) Source Control (3) Processing Improvements (4) Technology Testing.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Williams (Paul) and Associates, Medina, OH (United States)
• OSTI ID: 133025
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--105134; CONF-940746--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING