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2024 ANS Annual Conference
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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|Sponsored by HFICD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 4
Session Chair:
Steven Arndt (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Session Organizer:
Jamie Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Student Assistant:
Juan Valderrama
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Methods to Evaluate Embedded Sensor Performance for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
1:05–1:25PM EST
William H. Ferrell IV (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Jacob R. Houser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Holden C. Hyer (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
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Transit Time Flow Measurement via High-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples
1:25–1:45PM EST
Alexander H. Hashemian (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Richard Skifton (INL)
Trace Xenon Measurements Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Fuel Failure Monitoring in Generation IV Gas-Cooled Fast Reactors
1:45–2:05PM EST
M. Burger (Univ. of Michigan), L. Garrett (Univ. of Michigan), A. Burak (Univ. of Michigan), V. Petrov (Univ. of Michigan), A. Manera (Univ. of Michigan), X. Sun (Univ. of Michigan), P. Sabharwall (INL), I. Jovanovic (Univ. of Michigan)
Design of a High Temperature Eddy Current Flow Meter via Thermal-Mechanical Simulation
2:05–2:25PM EST
G. Kinzler (Univ. of Pittsburgh), U. Zangrilli (Univ. of Pittsburgh), H. Ban (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Improvements in Antineutrino Detector Response by Including Fission Product Transitions
2:25–2:45PM EST
Wei Eng Ang (Texas A&M Univ.), Sanghun Lee (Texas A&M Univ.), Shikha Prasad (Texas A&M Univ.)
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