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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Peter Titus (PPPL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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REBCO Coated Conductors for Magnets
David Christopher Larbalestier (Florida Prevention Research Center)
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Development of High Field Magnets for Future Fusion Devices
Robert Duckworth (ORNL)
Modeling delamination in the TF insulation with ANSYS EKILL command
Peter H Titus (PPPL)
Modeling of Quench Arcing in ITER Superconducting Magnets
Enrique Gaxiola, Xiongyi Huang, Ran Qingxiang, Arjan Verweij, Michal Maciejewski, Shanliang Zheng, Neil Mitchell, Simon Mcintosh, Pierre Bauer, Elizabeth Surrey, Andrew Holmes, Heng Zhang, Ruben Otin, Sam Tippetts (UKAEA)
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First test results of the integrated coil form technology
Timothy Coombs, Kwangmin Kim, Thomas Painter (NHMFL)
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