Rockwell Hanford Operations: defense waste and byproducts management, monthly report, November 1983

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5497102

Subsequent to review of tank contents by engineering, five single-shell tanks were declared Interim Stabilized in November. The total number of Interim Stabilized Single-Shell tanks is now 66 of 149. With the stabilization of Tank 104-TY, the entire TY Tank Farm is now Interim Stabilized. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) strategy plans were submitted to DOE-Richland. The caustic strike for Campaign 83-2 was completed and 5.0 MCi of purified strontium was produced. Seventeen strontium capsules were produced in November. Phase V decontamination and decommissioning (D an D) of the 204-S Waste Unloading Facility continued to progress well ahead of schedule. All four 50,000-gallon tanks have now been removed and transported to the burial trench. The 204-S D and D is now projected to be completed by December 30, 1983, three months ahead of schedule. One V-type trench was completed bringing the Fiscal Year To Date excavation total to 2.1 million cubic feet. Three capsules from the WESF pool cell were shipped to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in fabricating cesium sources. Arrangements are in progress to take advantage of these capsules being emptied at ORNL, and destructive evaluation of inner capsule wall sections will be performed. This analyses will provide data on the corrosion rate of cesium capsules under water basin storage conditions since these capsules have been in water basin storage for 5 to 8 years.

• Research Organization: Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 5497102
• Report Number(s): RHO-PB-SR-10-B-WM-Nov.83; ON: DE84004205
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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