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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.
Hongli Chen, Tao Zhou, Zi Meng, Yican Wu, FDS Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 157-163
Blanket Materials Technology | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14129
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A Chinese dual-functional lithium lead test blanket module was proposed for testing in ITER. The flow channel insert (FCI) was inserted in LiPb flow channels to reduce magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects and to increase the outlet temperature of coolant LiPb. The FCI has a big influence on the LiPb flow characteristics under the high magnetic field. In this paper, the LiPb MHD flow characteristics both in the gap between the FCI and the channel wall and inside the FCI was numerically calculated using an MHD code named MTC-H 2.0 in a poloidal channel. The influence of the FCI on flow distribution was analyzed. The pressure drop was compared to the case without the FCI, and the pressure equalization was assessed for both sides of the FCI with pressure equalization openings. The impact of electrical conductivity of the FCI material was analyzed.