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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.
Ahmad Osgouee, Jin Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 181 | Number 3 | March 2013 | Pages 493-506
Technical Papers | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-A15806
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, a new, robust control method based on a multimodel predictive control scheme is developed for steam generator level (SGL) control in nuclear power plants. For a multiramp power increase from low to full power, the proposed controller is capable of keeping the SGL within the admissible range by minimizing the level transients and improving the stability of the control loop. Simulation results and a general framework for systematically studying the SGL are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method by comparing the performance of the designed controller with that of a properly tuned conventional three-element proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the proposed controller is more robust than a conventional PID controller to steam flow disturbances caused by load variations.