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Title: Long-term strategy for management of Savannah River site defense high-level nuclear waste

Abstract

The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) nearing completion at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is the lead installation in the US Department of Energy program for ending interim storage and achieving permanent disposal of large quantities of defense high-level nuclear wastes in the United States. At projected processing rates, the DWPF will convert the existing SRS inventory of aqueous high-level wastes to solid glass form in steel canisters in about 20 years, with process adjustments required in a terminal campaign to handle residual waste components. Following completion of the existing inventory workoff, significantly modified facilities and procedures will be needed to accommodate the down-size waste output of a single reactor (NPR) operation. The SRS program at this time, in contrast to the other defense waste as well as commercial waste programs, will be dominated by requirements of a small-scale technology, suitable for processing low volumes of wastes as-generated in relatively high-activity form. 19 refs.

Authors:
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  1. Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (USA)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/DP
OSTI Identifier:
5624496
Report Number(s):
DP-MS-88-148-Rev.1; CONF-891006-3-Rev.1
ON: DE89012521
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-89SR18035
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Joint international waste management conference, Kyoto (Japan), 23-28 Oct 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SOLID WASTES; VITRIFICATION; GLASS; PLANNING; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing; 053000 - Nuclear Fuels- Environmental Aspects

Citation Formats

Boersma, M D, McDonell, W R, Goodlett, C B, Thomas, S D, Slate, S C, and Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA. Long-term strategy for management of Savannah River site defense high-level nuclear waste. United States: N. p., 1989. Web.
Boersma, M D, McDonell, W R, Goodlett, C B, Thomas, S D, Slate, S C, & Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA. Long-term strategy for management of Savannah River site defense high-level nuclear waste. United States.
Boersma, M D, McDonell, W R, Goodlett, C B, Thomas, S D, Slate, S C, and Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA. 1989. "Long-term strategy for management of Savannah River site defense high-level nuclear waste". United States.
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author = {Boersma, M D and McDonell, W R and Goodlett, C B and Thomas, S D and Slate, S C and Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA},
abstractNote = {The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) nearing completion at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is the lead installation in the US Department of Energy program for ending interim storage and achieving permanent disposal of large quantities of defense high-level nuclear wastes in the United States. At projected processing rates, the DWPF will convert the existing SRS inventory of aqueous high-level wastes to solid glass form in steel canisters in about 20 years, with process adjustments required in a terminal campaign to handle residual waste components. Following completion of the existing inventory workoff, significantly modified facilities and procedures will be needed to accommodate the down-size waste output of a single reactor (NPR) operation. The SRS program at this time, in contrast to the other defense waste as well as commercial waste programs, will be dominated by requirements of a small-scale technology, suitable for processing low volumes of wastes as-generated in relatively high-activity form. 19 refs.},
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year = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
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