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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.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Kris Kuhlman (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Autumn Taylor (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Brine Availability Test in Salt 2.0
3:15–3:35PM MST
Philip Stauffer (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Hakim Boukhalfa (LANL), Michelle Bourret (LANL), Charles Coens (Sandia), Eric Guiltinan (LANL), Courtney Herrick (Sandia), Rick Jayne (Sandia), Melissa Mills (LANL), Martin Nemer (Sandia), Shawn Otto (LANL), Thom Rahn (LANL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
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Investigating the Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Behavior of Salt for Nuclear Waste Disposal Through Resistivity Monitoring and Laboratory Experiments
3:35–3:55PM MST
Sebastian Uhlemann (LBNL), Christine Downs (Sandia), Jiannan Wang (LBNL), Shawn Otto (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlmann (Sandia), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
Using Stable Isotopes in Water to Trace Brine Mobilization at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
3:55–4:15PM MST
Daniel L. Eldridge (LANL), Hayden B.D. Miller (LANL), Thom Rahn (LANL), Eric J. Guiltinan (LANL), Shawn Otto (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Philip H. Stauffer (LANL)
Brine Availability Test in Salt: Collaborative Modeling Within DECOVALEX
4:15–4:35PM MST
Eric Guiltinan (LANL), Jerone Bartol (Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval), Steven Benbow (Quintessa), Michelle Bourret (LANL), Oliver Czaikowski (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Kyra Jantschik (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Rick Jayne (Sandia), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Simon Norris (Nuclear Waste Services), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Hua Shao (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe), Hafssa Tounsi (LBNL), Claire Watson (Quintessa), Philip Stauffer (LANL)
Analyzing Field Data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS): A High-Resolution 3D Numerical Comparison Between Voronoi and Cartesian Meshing
4:35–4:55PM MST
Richard S. Jayne (Sandia), Kristopher L. Kuhlman (Sandia)
Near-Field Coupled Processes in Salt-Based Disposal Facilities -- Learning from Modelling in DECOVALEX 2023
4:55–5:15PM MST
Steven Benbow (Quintessa), Claire Watson (Quintessa), Alex Bond (Quintessa), Simon Norris (Nuclear Waste Services), Sam Parsons (Nuclear Waste Services)
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