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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.
M. Smith, Y. Zhai, A. Jariwala, T. Edgemon, L. Konkel, M. Smiley, J. Vasquez, A. L. Verlaan, J. A. C. Heijmans
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 4 | November 2017 | Pages 640-644
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1352423
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The Upper Visible Infrared Wide Angle Viewing System (UWAVS) is a diagnostic used in five upper ports of ITER. Each UWAVS provides visible and infrared views of various sections of the divertor. A single UWAVS is designed in three main sections: in-vessel, interspace and port cell assemblies. Each assembly utilizes multiple steering and relay mirrors to direct the in-vessel light out of the tokamak to the port cell camera sensors.
For the in-vessel components, the transient electro-magnetic (EM) environment resulting from the ITER magnet operation and plasma events induces design driving Lorentz forces. As such, all in-vessel systems require detailed electro-magnetic finite element analysis (FEA) to derive the resulting time dependent Lorentz loads.
ANSYS Maxwell software was used to perform transient electro-magnetic simulations of the UWAVS in ITER upper port 14. A 20 degree sector, cyclic symmetric model was employed and included, inner and outer vacuum vessel, blanket shield modules, diagnostic fist wall (DFW) and shield module (DSM), upper port plug structure, DSM shield blocks, and a detailed model of the UWAVS in-vessel assembly.
The resulting data includes eddy current density and vector plots along with force and moment summation for various UWAVS components. Front end optical components are specifically reported as these components have significant EM loads.