Interim activities report. [Westinghouse Savannah River Company]

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5489640

Majzlik, Jr, E H

Several developments have occurred since the 32nd WANTO Meeting that effect the status of the Savannah River Site. A request to restart K-Reactor was issued after nearly three years of intensive engineering analysis, procedure revisions and enhanced operator training to upgrade all aspects of reactor operation. In early December 1991, the Westinghouse Savannah River Company requested permission from DOE to start the K-Reactor. In mid-December the DOE and the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board concurred with readiness to operate and a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a lawsuit to delay restart until a cooling tower is completed. The K-Reactor was restarted and has been in an evaluation and testing mode. Full power operation at thirty percent of maximum capacity is projected for March 1992 after which actual tritium generation will begin. Operation will continue until October when the cooling tower will be tied into the reactor cooling system. In conjunction with the restart of K-Reactor, the P-Reactor has been placed in permanent shutdown status and the L-Reactor has been placed in warm stand-by. In another reactor related situation, the DOE will delay the decision on construction of the New Production Reactor (NPR) until 1993. The choice of reactor type and location of the NPR will be integrated into the overall programmatic decision on Reconfiguration of the Weapons Complex. Finally, construction of the Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) was resumed in December 1991 after several months stoppage for evaluation and revision of project funding procedures.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 5489640
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-92-101; CONF-9203120-1; ON: DE92011155
• Resource Relation: Conference: 33. weapons agencies nondestructive testing organization (WANTO) meeting, Livermore, CA (United States), 10-12 Mar 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
K REACTOR
REACTOR START-UP
REACTOR VESSELS
WELDED JOINTS
SPECIAL PRODUCTION REACTORS
INSPECTION
HEAT TRANSFER
HYDRAULICS
L REACTOR
P REACTOR
PERSONNEL
REACTOR SHUTDOWN
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
WALLS
CONTAINERS
ENERGY TRANSFER
FLUID MECHANICS
HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS
JOINTS
MECHANICS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OPERATION
PRODUCTION REACTORS
REACTOR OPERATION
REACTORS
SHUTDOWN
START-UP
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
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