Hanford's Double-Shell Tank AY-102 Recovery Project - 17416

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:22802423

Hanson, Carl; Guillot, Sebastien ^[1]; Greenwell, Doug; Follett, Jordan ^[2]

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1. AREVA Federal Services (United States)
2. Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC (United States)

Since at least August 2012, Hanford Tank 241-AY-102 (AY-102) has been leaking from its primary tank into its secondary containment. A pumping plan was developed in 2013 to provide a path forward for recommended remediation actions to be implemented as part of the AY-102 Recovery Project. On March 21, 2014, the Washington State Department of Ecology issued Administrative Order No. 10618 requiring Washington River Protection Solutions and the United States Department of Energy to conduct actions related to and including the removal of waste from AY-102. The three parties agreed to resolve the appeal of the Administrative Order through a Settlement Agreement which addresses the remaining requirements and implements enforceable milestone dates, including initiation of waste retrieval by March 4, 2016 and completion of waste retrieval operations by March 4, 2017. The AY-102 Recovery Project was developed to address the Settlement Agreement requirements. While retrieval of waste from Single-Shell Tanks has been performed at Hanford for decades, retrieval from Double-Shell Tank AY-102 required adaptation of the existing technologies to a new environment on a larger scale than previously encountered. A significant number of obstructions and in-tank equipment limit accessibility to the high source term AY-102 waste and the location of the selected receiver tank required installation of an extensive, heavily-shielded above-ground transfer line. Despite countless challenges and obstacles encountered throughout, the project successfully completed system design, fabrication, installation, testing, and the first phase of operations within a highly compressed, aggressive schedule. Waste retrieval operations in AY-102 commenced on March 3, 2016 and the initial operating phase concluded on April 30. Additional sluicing capability was required to complete the mission and four Extended Reach Sluicers were installed to support the second operating phase, which began on December 8, 2016. As of December 31, 2016, approximately 97% of the original waste volume had been removed, resulting in an estimated remaining waste volume of about 75,000 liters. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22802423
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--19-WM-17416
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
CONTAINMENT
LEAKS
PUMPING
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REMEDIAL ACTION
WATER REMOVAL