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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|Sponsored by RRSD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 2
Session Chair:
Brian E. O'Neil
Alternate Chair:
Adam J. Carroll
Session Organizer:
Young Soo Park
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Improved Data Analysis Method for Exhaust Tunnel LiDAR Inspection Data
3:15–3:35PM MST
William Willie Wells (SRNL), Jean R. Plummer (SRNL), Nickolas A. Trisnadi (SRNL), Jane M. Carter (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Saiying Z. Bowers (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
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Robot-Assisted Online Monitoring and Online Maintenance for Nuclear Power Plants
3:35–3:55PM MST
Fan Zhang (Georgia Tech)
Augmented-Reality Telerobotics with HoloLens
3:55–4:15PM MST
Frank Regal (Univ. Texas, Austin), Young Soo Park (ANL), Mitchell Pryor (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Development and Testing of DOE-EM Laterial Gamma Scanner
4:15–4:35PM MST
Sebastian Story (Florida Int'l Univ.), Josue Estrada (Florida Int'l Univ.), Jeff Natividad (Florida Int'l Univ.), Douglas Reid (Florida Int'l Univ.), Kayle Boomer (Florida Int'l Univ.), Anthony Abrahao (Florida Int'l Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida Int'l Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida Int'l Univ.), Mackenson Telusma (Florida Int'l Univ.)
Autonomous Alpha Radiation Survey Using Mobile Robotic Platforms
4:35–4:55PM MST
Alex Navarro (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Torres (Univ. Texas, Austin), Caleb Hatler (LANL), Mary Tebben (Univ. Texas, Austin), Janak Panthi (Univ. Texas, Austin), Daniel I. Meza (Univ. Texas, Austin), Mitch Pryor (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Design for Safeguards and Safety: Nuclear Fuel Element Inspection Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle
4:55–5:15PM MST
Bahram Nassersharif (Univ. Rhode Island), Jacob Glantz (Univ. Rhode Island), Felicity Griffin (Univ. Rhode Island), Paulina Loredo (Univ. Rhode Island), Emmett Nguyen (Univ. Rhode Island), Ryan Wiz (Univ. Rhode Island), Cameron Goodwin (Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center)
Presented by Jacqueline Schings (Univ. Rhode Island)
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