Use of Robotics in Liquid Waste System - {sup 3}H Evaporator, Tank Closure and Defense Waste Processing Facility - 18525
- Savannah River Remediation, Aiken, SC 29808 (United States)
The Savannah River Site (SRS) Liquid Waste System (LWS) safely stores and treats high-level radioactive waste. The LWS consists of 51 waste storage tanks (eight of which are operationally closed and filled with grout), waste evaporators, treatment facilities, and solidification facilities such as the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) and Salt-stone Production Facility (SPF). At Savannah River Remediation (SRR), the liquid waste contractor, robotic technologies are needed to enter areas and spaces that are otherwise inaccessible or prohibit direct access by workers due to unsafe, unstable, or unknown physical or structural conditions; or configurations that are hard to reach or beyond reach without taking extraordinary mechanical measures. As discussed below, SRR uses robotic technologies at various LWS facilities to reduce dose to the workers as well as provide access to unreachable locations due to the presence of radiological or chemical hazards. (author)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977798
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--20-WM-18525
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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