WIPP Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System Design - 18490

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:22977772

Berry, Richard; Clemmens, Jack ^[1]; Gill, Ron ^[2]; Whisenhunt, Rodney; Huddleston, Dennis; Field, Daniel; Fuhlage, Clark ^[3]; Menna, John ^[4]

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1. APTIM, Baton-Rouge, LA (United States)
2. U.S. Department of Energy, Carlsbad Field Office - DOE-CBFO (United States)
3. Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC - NWP (United States)
4. Aecom Technology Corporation (United States)

A large exhaust ventilation system has been designed to provide continuous HEPA filtration of the exhaust from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) underground while meeting the demand for expanded waste emplacement and mining operations over the next 40 years. The WIPP Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) design provides secondary confinement to mitigate the consequences of a postulated radiological release in the underground. The SSCVS design specifically addresses the radiological incident that occurred in 2014 by providing Safety Significant secondary confinement and continuous HEPA filtration over a wide range of operating and environmental conditions. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22977772
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--20-WM-18490
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
DESIGN
FILTRATION
FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE
RADIATION ACCIDENTS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
UNDERGROUND
VENTILATION SYSTEMS
WIPP