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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
R.A. Surette, M.J. Wood
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 957-963
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30529
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We have investigated various commercially available tritium-surface contamination monitors along with different swipe media and techniques for direct and indirect (swipe) monitoring of contaminated surfaces. The monitors tested were the Berthold LB1210 with both a LB6255 windowless detector and a BZ-200 XK-P xenon counter, a PC-55 windowless proportional counter from Nuclear Measurement Corporation, a Whitlock VSC 5000 surface-contamination monitor, and the Hurfurt “Microcont” surface monitor. A prototype E-perm® electret surface contamination monitor and MeltiLex™, a wax-based plastic scintillant were also evaluated for measuring tritium-surface contamination. None of the methods or instruments evaluated were more sensitive than the swipe/liquid-scintillation counting (LSC) method. Samples measured with open-window proportional counters were, in general, less than half as sensitive, but had the advantages of having the results available almost immediately and requiring minimal sample preparation. Instruments that measure surface contamination directly are sensitive and convenient but the measurement includes some nonremovable component that would not contribute to a person's dose. Instruments that use a detector with any type of window are too insensitive for routine workplace-surface monitoring.
