Optimizing the WIPP Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System - 19691

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:23005479

Menna, John ^[1]; Whisenhunt, Rodney; Smith, Steve ^[2]; Gill, Ron ^[3]

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1. AECOM Technology Corporation (United States)
2. Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC (United States)
3. Department of Energy - Carlsbad Field Office (United States)

A large exhaust ventilation system has been designed to provide continuous HEPA filtration of the exhaust from the 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 design provides safety significant secondary confinement to mitigate the consequences of postulated radiological releases in the underground. The integration of nuclear safety requirements into the design was accomplished during Safety Design Integration Team meetings. During these meetings, safety functions, boundaries and potential failure modes were reviewed to ensure that nuclear safety requirements were being effectively integrated into the design. Equally important to making final design decisions was ensuring that the maintenance and operation of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System would not pose unnecessary burden to Technical Safety Requirements. This paper discusses the thought processes and decisions that justified a more concise safety significant boundary in the final design. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 23005479
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--21-WM-19691
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
DESIGN
FILTRATION
MAINTENANCE
MINING
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
OPERATION
OPTIMIZATION
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
WIPP