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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Technical Session
Wednesday, February 8, 2023|10:10–11:50AM EST|Ossabaw
Session Chair:
Gerry Hildebrandt (South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co.)
Alternate Chair:
Michael Marler (Marler Consulting)
Session Organizer:
Charles Lease
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The Status and Evolution of VISION -- Roadmap to a Modernized Version
10:10–10:35AM EST
Gary Sprague (FOCUS Learning Corp.), Dan Brannon (FOCUS Learning Corp.)
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Innovative Non-Licensed Operator Training
10:35–11:00AM EST
Daniel Bowers (Wolf Creek Generating Station)
Adaptive Learning 2.0: Flexible Focus, Dynamic Composition, and Predictive Control
11:00–11:25AM EST
William J. Wilson (Ontario Power Generation), Blessile Galema (Ontario Power Generation)
Design and Development of Adaptive Lesson Plans Using Learning Objects
11:25–11:50AM EST
Jose Martin (Tecnatom USA)
Presented by Jaime Redondo Morais (Tecnatom)
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