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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Yan Han, Karen K. Fujikawa, Inessa E. Berman, Sanjaybir Bakshi, David A. Suddaby (Westinghouse)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 60-66
U.S. NRC Regulatory Guide 1.20 requires plants to evaluate their steam dryers prior to implementation of extended power uprate (EPU). A high cycle fatigue analysis performed for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) steam dryers showed that at four locations modifications to the OEM dryers were required to maintain safety margins at EPU conditions. Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC) performed the analyses of the steam dryer modifications. The scope and objective of this paper is to present the high cycle fatigue analysis that was performed to assess the structural integrity of the steam dryers with modifications subjected to acoustic loads.
