Packaging design criteria (onsite) project W-520 immobilized low-activity waste transportation system

BOEHNKE, W M

doi:10.2172/807466

Title: Packaging design criteria (onsite) project W-520 immobilized low-activity waste transportation system

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A plan is currently in place to process the high-level radioactive wastes that resulted from uranium and plutonium recovery operations from Spent Nuclear Fuel at the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington. Currently, millions of gallons of high-level radioactive waste in the form of liquids, sludges, and saltcake are stored in many large underground tanks onsite. This waste will be processed and separated into high-level and low-activity fractions. Both fractions will then be vitrified (i.e., blended with molten borosilicate glass) in order to encapsulate the toxic radionuclides. The immobilized low-activity waste (ILAW) glass will be poured into LAW canisters, allowed to cool and harden to solid form, sealed by welding, and then transported to a double-lined trench in the 200 East Area for permanent disposal. This document presents the packaging design criteria (PDC) for an onsite LAW transportation system, which includes the ILAW canister, ILAW package, and transport vehicle and defines normal and accident conditions. This PDC provides the basis for the ILAW onsite transportation system design and fabrication and establishes the transportation safety criteria that the design will be evaluated against in the Package Specific Safety Document (PSSD). It provides the criteria for the ILAW canister, cask and transport vehicles andmore »« less

Authors:: BOEHNKE, W M

Publication Date:: Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2001

Research Org.:: WMNW (US)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)

OSTI Identifier:: 807466

Report Number(s):: RPP-8313, Rev.0
EDT-631182; TRN: US0302102

DOE Contract Number:: AC27-99RL14047

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 16 Oct 2001

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; BOROSILICATE GLASS; CONTAINERS; DESIGN; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; NUCLEAR FUELS; PACKAGING; RADIOISOTOPES; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; VITRIFICATION; WASTE TRANSPORTATION; WASTES; PACKAGING DESIGN CRITERIA; LOW ACTIVITY WASTSE; DISPOSAL; ILAW; W-520; IMMOBILIZED; TRANSPORTATION

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  abstractNote = {A plan is currently in place to process the high-level radioactive wastes that resulted from uranium and plutonium recovery operations from Spent Nuclear Fuel at the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington. Currently, millions of gallons of high-level radioactive waste in the form of liquids, sludges, and saltcake are stored in many large underground tanks onsite. This waste will be processed and separated into high-level and low-activity fractions. Both fractions will then be vitrified (i.e., blended with molten borosilicate glass) in order to encapsulate the toxic radionuclides. The immobilized low-activity waste (ILAW) glass will be poured into LAW canisters, allowed to cool and harden to solid form, sealed by welding, and then transported to a double-lined trench in the 200 East Area for permanent disposal. This document presents the packaging design criteria (PDC) for an onsite LAW transportation system, which includes the ILAW canister, ILAW package, and transport vehicle and defines normal and accident conditions. This PDC provides the basis for the ILAW onsite transportation system design and fabrication and establishes the transportation safety criteria that the design will be evaluated against in the Package Specific Safety Document (PSSD). It provides the criteria for the ILAW canister, cask and transport vehicles and defines normal and accident conditions. The LAW transportation system is designed to transport stabilized waste from the vitrification facility to the ILAW disposal facility developed by Project W-520. All ILAW transport will take place within the 200 East Area (all within the Hanford Site).},

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