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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
Avner P. Cohen, Roy Perry, Shay I. Heizler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 189-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1499339
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Modeling the propagation of radiative heat waves in optically thick material using a diffusive approximation is a well-known problem. In optically thin material, classic methods, such as classic diffusion or classic , yield the wrong heat wave propagation behavior, and higher-order approximation might be required, making the solution more difficult to obtain. The asymptotic approximation [Heizler, Nucl. Sci. Eng., Vol. 166, p. 17 (2010)] yields the correct particle velocity but fails to model the correct behavior in highly anisotropic media, such as problems that involve a sharp boundary between media or strong sources. However, the solution for the two-region Milne problem of two adjacent half-spaces divided by a sharp boundary yields a discontinuity in the asymptotic solutions that makes it possible to solve steady-state problems, especially in neutronics. In this work we expand the time-dependent asymptotic approximation to a highly anisotropic medium using the discontinuity jump conditions of the energy density, yielding a modified discontinuous equation in general geometry. We introduce numerical solutions for two fundamental benchmarks in plane symmetry. The results thus obtained are more accurate than those attained by other methods, such as Flux Limiters or Variable Eddington Factors.