Decommissioning of surplus facilities at the Hanford Site

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7271850

Goodenough, J D ^[1]; Hughes, M C; Jackson, G W ^[2]

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1. USDOE Richland Operations Office, WA (USA)
2. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)

In 1943, as part of the war effort, the US Army Corps of Engineers selected the Hanford Site as the area to construct the first full-scale plutonium production facilities. Between 1943 and 1955, eight production reactors were built at the Hanford Site, along with numerous support facilities including major facilities used for the fuels separation process. Currently, over 100 of these facilities at the Hanford Site have been declared surplus and are to be decommissioned. This includes eight shutdown production reactors located in the 100 Area and two large fuels separation/process facilities located in the 200 Area. Other than the ongoing required surveillance and maintenance work, there are three significant decommissioning project activities currently under way: the decommissioning of the Strontium Semiworks Pilot Fuel Reprocessing Plant, the closure/cleanup of the 183-H Solar Evaporation Basins, and the planning for decommissioning of the eight surplus production reactors. 5 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 7271850
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA-0631; CONF-900210--7; ON: DE90007025
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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