Building 7602 Decontamination and Decommissioning for Reuse by Spallation Neutron Source

Conference · Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2002

OSTI ID:829619

Brill, A; Berger, J; Kelsey, A; Plummer, K

Building 7602 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was constructed in 1963 as a Reactor Service Building for the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor; the reactor was never fueled or operated, and the project was terminated in 1965. Significant building modifications were performed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Beginning in 1984, separation processes and equipment development and testing were initiated for the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program (CFRP). The principal materials used in the processes were depleted and natural uranium, nitric acid, and organic solvents. CFRP operations continued until 1994 when the program was discontinued and the facility declared surplus to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Systems and equipment were shut down; feed and waste materials were removed; and process fluids, chemicals, and uranium were drained and flushed from systems. This paper will present an overview of the Building 7602 D&D activities, final radiological survey , facility modifications, and project interfaces.

• Research Organization: Angie Brill, P.E. and James Berger, PhD, CHP Safety and Ecology Corporation 2008 Solway Road, Knoxville, TN (US); Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC P. O. Box 4699, Building 7078A, Mail Stop 6402, Oak Ridge, TN; UT-Battelle, LLC P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• OSTI ID: 829619
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste Management 2002 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/24/2002--02/28/2002; Other Information: PBD: 26 Feb 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CONSOLIDATED FUEL REPROCESSING PROGRAM
DECOMMISSIONING
DECONTAMINATION
GAS COOLED REACTORS
MODIFICATIONS
NATURAL URANIUM
NEUTRON SOURCES
NITRIC ACID
ORGANIC SOLVENTS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPALLATION
TESTING
URANIUM
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES