Tank Side Cesium Removal System Project and Technology Maturation Program - 19519
Matthew Landon, Kevin Ard, Blake Chamberlain, David T. Herman, Daniel McCabe, Reid Peterson, Philip Schonewill, Ian Pegg, Rob Wilson, Sahid Smith, WM Symposia, Inc, PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States), WM2019: 45 Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 3-7 Mar 2019; Other Information: Country of input: France; 3 refs; available online at: https://wwwxcdsystemcom/wmsym/2019/indexhtml
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is the Tank Operating Contractor (TOC) for the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP) on the Hanford Site. The Hanford Site stores an estimated 56 million gallons of mixed radioactive and chemically hazardous waste in large underground tanks. WRPS is in the process of designing the Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system to produce Low Activity Waste (LAW) from Hanford tank waste. The LAW will be transferred to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) LAW Vitrification Facility, where the hazardous constituents in the LAW will be immobilized in a durable glass waste form for disposal. The TSCR Project demonstrates a tank-side treatment system for providing feed to the WTP LAW Vitrification Facility. This system removes cesium from supernatant tank waste using non-elutable cesium ion exchange media to meet the applicable waste acceptance criteria for the WTP. In support of the project, a tailored Technology Maturation/Testing Plan (TMP) has been developed to identify principal Technology Elements (TEs) for the proposed process, designate Critical Technology Elements (CTEs), identify gaps in the existing knowledge base and identify the necessary activities to mature the technologies for successful deployment of TSCR. The project scope and technology maturation approach are presented. (authors)
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