Providing technology for D and D of Department of Energy facilities
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science and Technology
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has many nuclear facilities requiring deactivation and decommissioning (D and D) including research/test and production reactors, hot cells, highly enriched uranium, tritium, and plutonium processing facilities, fuel reprocessing canyons, gaseous diffusion plants, hot cells, waste processing facilities, and other weapons production facilities. The objectives for D and D is to reduce the costs and schedules, lower health and safety risks to the DOE workers and the public, reduce the amounts of secondary wastes, reduce the quantities of waste materials requiring disposal through the use of recycling/reuse, and reduce the costs of surveillance and maintenance of facilities that are in the deactivation phase. The Office of Science and Technology has formed partnerships with the DOE Offices who perform the decommissioning and deactivation cleanup projects to conduct large-scale technology demonstration projects (LSDPs) at DOE sites. Many technologies for characterization and monitoring, decontamination, dismantlement, waste sorting, metals recycling, worker health and safety, and project management have been or are being planned to be demonstrated at full-scale in these LSDPs.
- OSTI ID:
- 679388
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980632--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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