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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.
Francesco Romanelli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 4 | May 2008 | Pages 1217-1223
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Joint European Torus (jet) | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1751
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JET is the machine whose parameters are the closest to those of ITER and at present the only one that can use tritium and beryllium. JET can make essential contributions to ITER with regard to qualifying ITER scenarios at low normalized Larmor radius, consolidating the ITER design choice for plasma-facing components and heating systems, developing control tools and techniques, and providing a basic understanding of plasma dynamics. Consequently, an enhancement program has been launched that will be completed in 2010. A deuterium-tritium experiment should be envisaged, after testing of the ITER-like wall, to allow extrapolation of the scenarios to ITER-relevant conditions. JET will be the ideal machine where the collaboration among the scientists of the various ITER parties could be started in advance of ITER operations.