Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant: The project and process systems

Conference · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:7031812

Swenson, L D; Miller, W C; Smith, R A

Construction of the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant (HWVP) Project is scheduled to start on the Hanford Reservation in southeastern Washington State in 1991. The Project will immobilize liquid high-level and transuranic (TRU) defense wastes stored there and permit ultimate disposal of the waste in the nation's commercial deep geological repository. This document discusses the project and process systems. The HWVP represents the third phase of the US Department of Energy (DOE) activities that are focused on the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste, building on the experience of the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, and of the Waste Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), New York.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/EM
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 7031812
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA-0825; CONF-900608--49; ON: DE90014341
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
CONSTRUCTION
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
HANFORD RESERVATION
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PROCESSING
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RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REMOTE HANDLING
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
VITRIFICATION
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE FORMS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
WEST VALLEY PROCESSING PLANT