Hanford Direct Feed Low Activity Waste Real Time Monitoring Program - 18336
- Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina 29808 (United States)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of River Protection, Richland, Washington 99354 (United States)
- Bechtel National, Inc., Richland, Washington 99354 (United States)
- AECOM, Richland, WA 99354 (United States)
Effective operation of the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility at Hanford will rely on information provided from monitoring and control of chemical process streams to maintain safety and environmental compliance, product quality, and operational efficiency. The LAW Facility has been designed as a contact-maintained facility and it was recognized that establishing a real time, in-line monitoring program could have substantial benefits to the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of River Protection in the long-term, which include significant time savings, increased processing efficiency and effectiveness, reducing worker exposure to radiation and chemical hazards, reducing secondary wastes, and a better understanding of the flowsheet to support direct-feed LAW (DFLAW). The Assistant Manager/Federal Project Director for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Project chartered a multidisciplinary integrated technical team comprised of federal, contractor, and national laboratory staff to develop a phased program to support this initiative. A three-phase approach was adopted: - Phase 1: Requirements and Opportunities Analysis for Sampling Reduction; - Phase 2: Applications and Benefits Determination; - Phase 3: Qualification and Demonstration. The focus of Phase 1 is to identify the drivers behind any requirements for sampling and any opportunities to benefit from a real-time monitoring program. The effort identified 18 sample points and approximately 2,600 potential samples to be collected annually with analytical methods to be performed approximately 18,000 times annually. Based on Savannah River National Laboratory experience and discussions with WTP Analytical Laboratory personnel, these sample analyses will generate approximately 5,000 L of liquid secondary waste and approximately 1,300 m{sup 3} of solid secondary waste each year. Additional solid and liquid secondary wastes will be generated from sample collection. A preliminary evaluation indicates that employing real-time, in-line monitoring, mass balances, and periodic sampling could significantly reduce the number of samples collected, analytical methods performed, and secondary waste generated. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22975472
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-20-WM-18336; TRN: US21V0286015514
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 2 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
HANFORD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
OPTIMIZATION
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION HAZARDS
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
SAMPLING
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT