Integrated Disposal Facility FY2011 Glass Testing Summary Report

Pierce, Eric M. ; Bacon, Diana H. ; Kerisit, Sebastien N. ; Windisch, Charles F. ; Cantrell, Kirk J. ; Valenta, Michelle M. ; Burton, Sarah D. ; Westsik, Joseph H.

关键词: AR FACILITIES;    CORROSION;    GLASS;    INVENTORIES;    PERFORMANCE;    PUBLIC HEALTH;    RADIOISOTOPES;    SIMULATION;    TESTING;    WASTE FORMS;    WASTES ILAW Glass;    Monte Carlo Modelling;    STOMP;    PUF Testing;    Geochemical Modelling;    RAMAN spectroscopy;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1044513
RP-ID  :  PNNL-20781
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1044513
Others  :  Other: 830403000
Others  :  TRN: US1203459

学科分类：核能源与工程

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was contracted by Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC to provide the technical basis for estimating radionuclide release from the engineered portion of the disposal facility (e.g., source term). Vitrifying the low-activity waste at Hanford is expected to generate over 1.6 x 10{sup 5} m{sup 3} of glass (Certa and Wells 2010). The volume of immobilized low-activity waste (ILAW) at Hanford is the largest in the DOE complex and is one of the largest inventories (approximately 8.9 x 10{sup 14} Bq total activity) of long-lived radionuclides, principally {sup 99}Tc (t{sub 1/2} = 2.1 x 10{sup 5}), planned for disposal in a low-level waste (LLW) facility. Before the ILAW can be disposed, DOE must conduct a performance assessment (PA) for the Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF) that describes the long-term impacts of the disposal facility on public health and environmental resources. As part of the ILAW glass testing program PNNL is implementing a strategy, consisting of experimentation and modeling, in order to provide the technical basis for estimating radionuclide release from the glass waste form in support of future IDF PAs. The purpose of this report is to summarize the progress made in fiscal year (FY) 2011 toward implementing the strategy with the goal of developing an understanding of the long-term corrosion behavior of low-activity waste glasses.