Legacy Waste Removal from Standpipes and Bunkers at Whiteshell Laboratories, Canada - 19040
- Whiteshell Laboratories, CNL (Canada)
- Veolia Nuclear Solutions, Westminster, CO (United States)
In 1963 Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) founded the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment (now Whiteshell Laboratories, WL) in Pinawa, Manitoba to conduct nuclear research. In 1997 AECL made a business decision to discontinue research programs and operations at WL. One of the major decommissioning tasks at WL is to remove radioactive waste from 171 in-ground standpipes and 7 Intermediate Level Waste bunkers located in the Waste Management Area (WMA). Veolia Nuclear Solutions, through its subsidiary Kurion (Canada) Inc., has been selected to design, fabricate, and commission a remote waste access and conditioning system to remediate the waste from the standpipes and ILW bunkers at WL. The agreement builds on Veolia Nuclear Solutions' successfully deploying similar technologies at other projects. This paper describes the bunkers and standpipes structures, the types of wastes stored, the potential hazards (flammable gas and pyrophoric materials), and the equipment proposed by Kurion for safely extracting, sorting, segregating and packaging this waste. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23002874
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--21-WM-19040
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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