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Waste Removal from the West Valley Demonstration Project High-level Radioactive Waste Storage Tanks
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McMahon, C. L. Meess, Daniel Clinton |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) has mobilized, removed, and vitrified approximately 96 percent of the high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from its three HLW storage tanks. During the first three years of waste processing, waste removal was performed solely by mobilizing the slurry within the tanks and pumping the waste stream to the Vitrification Facility. As removal of the remaining small quantity of waste becomes increasingly more difficult, new, advanced waste retrieval and heel characterization equipment has been developed. The first systems have been deployed within the HLW tanks to better determine the amount of waste remaining and provide alternative waste mobilization and removal methods. This paper will discuss the WVDP experience in waste removal using mobilization pumps, highlight the new, advanced equipment installed in the HLW tanks in 1999, and describe advanced waste removal/characterization equipment currently being developed for future deployment. The combination of the existing and advanced waste mobilization, removal, and characterization systems are expected to remove greater than 99 percent of the original HLW activity and will quantify the remaining residual activity. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.wmsym.org/2000/pdf/31/31-25.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
