Interim Safe Storage of Plutonium Production Reactors at the US DOE Hanford Site - 13438

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI ID:22221406

Schilperoort, Daryl L.; Faulk, Darrin ^[1]

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1. Washington Closure Hanford, 2620 Fermi Avenue, Richland, Washington 99352 (United States)

Nine plutonium production reactors located on DOE's Hanford Site are being placed into an Interim Safe Storage (ISS) period that extends to 2068. The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for ISS [1] was completed in 1993 and proposed a 75-year storage period that began when the EIS was finalized. Remote electronic monitoring of the temperature and water level alarms inside the safe storage enclosure (SSE) with visual inspection inside the SSE every 5 years are the only planned operational activities during this ISS period. At the end of the ISS period, the reactor cores will be removed intact and buried in a landfill on the Hanford Site. The ISS period allows for radioactive decay of isotopes, primarily Co-60 and Cs-137, to reduce the dose exposure during disposal of the reactor cores. Six of the nine reactors have been placed into ISS by having an SSE constructed around the reactor core. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9-332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22221406
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--13-WM-13438
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
CESIUM 137
COBALT 60
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
INSPECTION
NUCLEAR DECAY
PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS
REACTOR CORES
SANITARY LANDFILLS
US DOE