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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, May 10, 2023|10:30AM–12:10PM MDT|Idaho Falls Room
Session Chair:
David I. Poston
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Alternate Chair:
Michael G. Houts
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joyner
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Digital Transient Modeling of NTP Prototype with Upset and Control System Analysis
10:30–10:50AM MDT
C. Russell Joyner II (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Tyler Jennings (Aerojet Rocketdyne), James Larkin (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Daniel J.H. Levack (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
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Coupled Modeling and Prediction of Cryogenic Propellant Thermo-Fluid Dynamics
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Eymon Lan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Dose Impacts from Fission Products and Flux Fields for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Ground Testing
11:10–11:30AM MDT
Reed Herner (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Alexander Foutch (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kelsa Palomares (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Adam Boylston (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Lindsey Holmes (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.)
Thermal Analysis of the Small Nuclear Rocket Engine Benchmark Case Using the MOOSE Framework
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Jacob Stonehill (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Corey D. Smith (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Kelsa B. Palomares (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.)
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