Plutonium Immobilization Can Inspection System

Conference · Tue Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:773112

Kriikku, E

The Savannah River Site (SRS) will immobilize excess plutonium in the proposed Plutonium Immobilization Plant (PIP) as part of Department of Energy's two-track approach for the disposition of weapons-usable plutonium. The PIP will utilize the ceramic can-in-canister technology in a process that mixes plutonium with ceramic formers and neutron absorbers, presses the mixture into a ceramic puck-like form, sinters the pucks in a furnace, loads the pucks into cans, and places the cans into large canisters. The canisters will subsequently be filled with high level waste glass in the Defense Waste Processing Facility for eventual disposal in a geologic repository. This paper will discuss the PIP can inspection components, control system, and test results.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-96SR18500
• OSTI ID: 773112
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-2000-00491; TRN: US0406866
• Resource Relation: Conference: 9th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote, Seattle, WA (US), 03/04/2001--03/08/2001; Other Information: PBD: 12 Dec 2000; PBD: 12 Dec 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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CONTROL SYSTEMS
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MIXTURES
NEUTRON ABSORBERS
PLUTONIUM
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
WASTE PROCESSING
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RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
WASTE FORMS
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