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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 NISD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chairs:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
This session will include presentations of the technical papers listed below, and the winner of NISD's 2021 Tommy Thompson award, Karl Fleming, will be recognized for his outstanding contributions to the enhancement of nuclear installations safety.
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Reliability of Cascade Failure of Heat Pipes in Micro Modular Reactors
12:35–12:55PM EST
Eunseo So (INL), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
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Pathway to Resolving Gaps in Advanced Reactor Mechanistic Source Term
12:55–1:15PM EST
Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)
Enabling Nuclear Deployment in Locations Without Robust Regulatory Institutions Through Technology-Enhanced Regulatory Frameworks
1:15–1:35PM EST
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Task Analysis for Human Reliability Analysis of Startup and Shutdown Operation
1:35–1:55PM EST
Woo Seok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science & Technology)
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