New treatment facility for low level process effluents at the Savannah River site

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:7000625

Ebra, M A; Bibler, J P; Johnston, B S; Kilpatrick, L L; Poy, F L; Wallace, R M

A new facility, the F/H Effluent Treatment Facility (F/H ETF) is under construction at the Savannah River site. It will decontaminate process effluents containing low levels of radionuclides and hazardous chemicals prior to discharge to a surface stream. These effluents, which are currently discharged to seepage basins, originate in the chemical separations and high-level radioactive waste processing areas, known as F-Area and H-Area. The new facility will allow closure of the basins in order to meet the provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by November 1988. A high degree of reliability is expected from this design as a result of extensive process development work that has been conducted at the Savannah River Laboratory. This work has included both bench scale testing of individual unit operations and pilot scale testing of an integrated facility, 150 to 285 L/min (40 to 75 gpm), that contains the major operations.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 7000625
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-86-125; CONF-870306-17; ON: DE87005827
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
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MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
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SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
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US DOE
US ERDA
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