Process monitoring concepts for safeguards and demonstrations at an Oak Ridge National Laboratory test facility
As part of the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program (CFRP) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Integrated Equipment Test (IET) facility has been constructed to demonstrate advanced equipment, processes, and controls for use in future reprocessing plants. The facility contains full-size plant equipment for shear and dissolution, feed preparation solvent extraction and product recovery. The facility is integrated with chemical recovery systems to allow continuous operation using depleted uranium feed solutions to simulate operations. The IET facility features computer interface to instrumentation and equipment for process control and information. Part of the CFRP has been the development of a safeguards systems to make use of extensive process monitoring data available from ''next-generation'' reprocessing and fuel facilities. This paper describes the IET facility and tests conducted to demonstrate sensitivities of process monitoring safeguards applications.
- Research Organization:
- Engineering Technology Div., Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN 37831
- OSTI ID:
- 5048929
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-860654-; TRN: 86-036054
- Journal Information:
- Nucl. Mater. Manage. Annu. Meet. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 15; Conference: 27. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, New Orleans, LA, USA, 22 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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