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After decades, Hanford’s WTP begins vitrifying tank waste
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and its contractor Bechtel announced on October 15 the start of nuclear vitrification operations at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), also known as the Vit Plant, at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
Yukiharu Ohga, Shunsuke Utena
Nuclear Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | March 1984 | Pages 229-236
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33352
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A guidance method for the computerized operation support system is being developed to prevent, terminate, or mitigate boiling water reactor (BWR) plant anomalies. The emergency operation guide, which leads the plant to cold shutdown after reactor scram, is provided by the event-oriented method. This method has two major features; an exact identification of initial causes is not required and an effective guide is provided for malfunctions of the plant cooling system. Off-line and on-line simulation for BWR/5 confirms that the method can provide effective guides for the reactor cold shutdown and respond to changes of plant states in real time.