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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
Tuesday, November 9, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Michelle (Shelby) Bensi (Univ Maryland)
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Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Improved Economics and Reliability While Maintaining High Levels of Safety -- Achievements and On-Going R&D Within RISA Pathway
12:40–1:10PM EST
Svetlana Lawrence (INL), Curtis L. Smith (INL), Diego Mandelli (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL)
Paper
The Versatile Economic Risk Tool (VERT)
1:10–1:40PM EST
Jaden Miller (Idaho State Univ.), Spencer Ercanbrack (Idaho State Univ.), Chad Pope (Idaho State Univ.)
Multicriterion Benefit Evaluation of Deploying New Battery Technology With Increased Capacity at a Generic Nuclear Power Plant
1:40–2:10PM EST
Sai Zhang (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL)
I-PRA Risk- and Cost-Informed Decision-Making Algorithm for Nuclear Power Plants
2:10–2:40PM EST
Sari Alkhatib (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ernest Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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