Plutonium Immobilization Can Loading Concepts
- Westinghouse Savannah River Company, AIKEN, SC (United States)
The Plutonium Immobilization Facility will encapsulate plutonium in ceramic pucks and seal the pucks inside welded cans. Remote equipment will place these cans in magazines and the magazines in a Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) canister. The DWPF will fill the canister with glass for permanent storage. This report discusses five can loading conceptual designs and the lists the advantages and disadvantages for each concept. This report identifies loading pucks into cans and backfilling cans with helium as the top priority can loading development areas. The can loading welder and cutter are very similar to the existing Savannah River Site (SRS) FB-Line bagless transfer welder and cutter and thus they are a low priority development item.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC (United States); Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-96SR18500
- OSTI ID:
- 664587
- Report Number(s):
- WSRC-TR--98-00165; ON: DE98057629
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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