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Savannah River marks the closure of another legacy waste tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has received concurrence from regulators that Tank 14 at the Savannah River Site has reached preliminary cease waste removal (PCWR) status after radioactive liquid waste was successfully removed from the tank. PCWR is a regulatory milestone in the closure of SRS’s old-style waste tanks, which were built in the 1950s to store waste generated by the chemical separations of plutonium and uranium.
Takuya Yamashita, Ikken Sato, Takeshi Honda, Kenichiro Nozaki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Marco Pellegrini, Takeshi Sakai, Shinya Mizokami
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 10 | October 2020 | Pages 1517-1537
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1704581
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Estimation and understanding of the state of the fuel debris and fission products inside the plant comprise an essential step in the decommissioning of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (1F). However, because of the plant’s high-radiation environment, direct observation of the plant interior is difficult. Therefore, in order to understand the plant’s interior conditions, comprehensive analysis and evaluation based on various measurement data from the plant, analysis of plant data during the accident progression phase, and information obtained from computer simulations for this phase are necessary. These evaluations can be used to estimate the conditions of the interior of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and the primary containment vessel (PCV). This paper addresses 1F Unit 2 as the subject to produce an estimated map of the fuel debris distribution from data obtained about the RPV and PCV based on comprehensive evaluation of various measurement data and information obtained from the accident progression analysis, which were released to the public in June 2018.