Failure Evaluation of Savannah River Site High-Level Waste Evaporator 242-25H - Part II - 17353
- Savannah River Remediation, LLC (United States)
- Savannah River National Laboratory (United States)
The Department of Energy's Savannah River Site evaporators are essential to the site actively managing and reducing its liquid high level waste inventory. Since 1951, a series of dedicated evaporators have reduced the liquid waste inventory from 600 ML (160 Mgal) by about a factor of four. The evaporators predominantly have experienced steam tube bundle failures, due to corrosion or fatigue, within about a decade of entering service. To extend service life, recent evaporators have used nickel-based alloys, such as Alloy G-3 (UNS N06030), and have improved operational controls to prevent corrosion. In spite of this, the 242-25H Evaporator recently developed a slow shell leak (0.4 L/min) after sixteen years. An evaporator shell leak is unique in the site's operating history. Finding and characterizing the leak has been challenging because of conflicting information from leak rate data and the locations of externally visible waste. The approaches used to evaluate possible failure modes are described. Failure modes considered include but are not limited to: pressure, temperature, materials, corrosion, fatigue, erosion, and wear. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22802378
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-19-WM-17353; TRN: US19V0389046772
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2017: 43. Annual Waste Management Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 5-9 Mar 2017; Other Information: Country of input: France; 13 refs.; available online at: http://archive.wmsym.org/2017/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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