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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.
Shi Ji (CNPDC), Huang Qingwu, Zhou Chuangbin, Xu Liangjun (CNPEC), Jiang Hui (CNPDC)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1043-1052
This paper focuses on the study and implementation of General Operating Procedure(GOP) of CPR1000 nuclear power plant control room in China. Hong Yan He Nuclear Power Plant (HYH NPP) is on behalf of the first standard technology CPR1000 plants based on the LING AO 3&4 nuclear plants project[4]. Some technical improvements for Main Control Room such as Computerized Operating Procedure Systems (COPS)[5],Backup-Panel(BUP), Large Display Panel (LDP), Advanced alarm system, Safety Parameter Display system(SPDS)were implemented in the LING AO 3&4 NPP[6].. New development for General Procedure of CPR1000 Main Control Room is detailed in this paper. Meanwhile, New I&C systems provide new features that affect the control room operating concept, therefore a detailed analysis is required to take into consideration all the operating and human factor aspects. Any modernization for Control Room such as COPS, that affects what information the operator sees or the system's response to a control input must be empirically evaluated to ensure that the new study does not compromise human-system interaction effectiveness. Based on experience with HYH NPP Units 1&2 in China, this paper presents the approach used as well as the most relevant aspects of this kind of project. This approach will be used in new nuclear power plant, and also used in modernizing I&C system in currently operative nuclear power plants, in addition to meeting safety requirements and the plant's operational requirements, to improve cost-effective plant and human performance and to reduce likelihood of human errors, to gain maximum benefit of the implemented technology and to increase the performance, resulting in improved plant safety, availability, reliability, and cost-effective operation.