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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.
M. Jack Ohanian was a passionate and tireless nuclear educator throughout his career. An ANS Fellow, he was an active member of the Society from 1964 until his death in 2011.
He was born on August 7, 1933 in Istanbul, Turkey and was educated there until he came to the U.S. in 1956 to study as an exchange student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Ohanian became a faculty member at the University of Florida (UF) in 1963, where he taught for 38 years. In 1969, he was named the Department Chairman of Nuclear Engineering. He was named the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering in 1979, and in 1998 he became the interim Dean of the Graduate School and the V.P. of Research at UF. A year later he was made interim Dean for Engineering, a position he held until his retirement.
His dedication to the field of engineering included his service to the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) as chairman.
Ohanian earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Robert College, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from RPI.
Just prior to becoming A U.S. citizen in 1967, he was awarded the American Legion’s Medal of Valor for helping to save a father and daughter in a river in Oleno State Park, Florida.
Dr. M. Jack Ohanian passed away on October 31, 2011.
Read Nuclear News from July 1990 for more on Jack.
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