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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
Y. Asakura, M. Tanaka, T. Uda, H. Ogawa, S. Takami, Y. Oya, K. Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 75-78
Technical Paper | Iter and Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1768
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In order to perform deuterium plasma experiments by using the Large Helical Device (LHD), the NIFS is planning to install a system for tritium recovery from exhaust gas. NIFS is planning to apply the latest technologies for tritium recovery. Oxidized tritium (tritiated water vapor) contained in the purge gas is usually removed using an absorbent column. However, if a dew point of less than -60 °C could be obtained using a polymer membrane dehumidifier, the equipment could be reduced in size and a more stable dehumidifying performance could be expected. The applicability of a commercially available membrane dehumidifier has been evaluated experimentally. Based on the performance test results, an actual dehumidifier system that combines a membrane dehumidifier and an absorbent column is proposed and verified to be applicable to the LHD.