Conditioning and Requalification of Legacy Waste Packages - 18648
- GNS Gesellschaft fuer Nuklear-Service mbH (Germany)
In most German interim storage facilities, hundreds of waste packages are waiting for re-conditioning and qualification to comply with the waste acceptance criteria (WAC) for the Konrad repository. Especially the waste classification as well as some characteristics and the description of the material composition in its current state do not comply with the Konrad requirements since the conditioning of these waste packages took place up to 40 years ago. The German name for these waste packages is 'Altgebinde', hereafter referred to as 'legacy waste packages'. The present article will provide an overview of the measures for the qualification of these legacy waste packages to fulfill the Konrad requirements. The following measures, when necessary, are carried out for the qualification of legacy waste packages: - Collection and evaluation of all documents related to the primary conditioning process, e. g. the used equipment, documented waste and packaging properties, conditioning and radiology, if available (hereafter 'old documents'). - Preparation of a conceptual report and a process control quality plan based on existing data, with appropriate measures to qualify the waste packages. Assessment and approval of the process control quality plan by the competent authority. - Characterization of the waste and packaging properties by visual inspection or tomography, recording or updating of dose rate, contamination and mass, verification of product stability, for example by gas analysis of the interior atmosphere of the container. - Characterization of the nuclide inventory by gammas scans, sample taking to analyze nuclides which can not be measured by means of in-situ gamma spectrometry, and for material declaration. - Qualification or post-conditioning of the legacy waste packages if necessary, e. g. by drying the waste packages and packaging them in containers approved for disposal. - Compilation of all results of the above mentioned tests and steps to create a waste package documentation, including the calculations for the nuclide inventory and the description of the material composition of the waste packages. - Receiving approval by the competent authority after evaluation of the final documentation. The aim behind this structured approach is to prevent additional, unnecessary measures and treatment of the waste. Consequently, the additional characterization is preferably carried out on the basis of the available documents. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977887
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-20-WM-18648; TRN: US21V0515017932
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 1 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
CLASSIFICATION
CONTAINERS
CONTAMINATION
DOCUMENTATION
DOSE RATES
EVALUATION
GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY
GAS ANALYSIS
INVENTORIES
PACKAGING
PROCESS CONTROL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
RADIOLOGY
TOMOGRAPHY
VERIFICATION