Gas Generation from K East Basin Sludges - Series II Testing

Bryan, Samuel A. ; Delegard, Calvin H. ; Schmidt, Andrew J. ; Sell, Rachel L. ; Silvers, Kurt L. ; Gano, Susan R. ; Thornton, Brenda M.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Gas Generation;    Processing;    Oxidation;    Spent Nuclear Fuel;    Hanford Site;   

DOI  :  10.2172/15010620
RP-ID  :  PNNL-13446 Rev. 1
RP-ID  :  AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  15010620

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report describes work to examine the gas generation behavior of actual K East (KE) Basin floor, pit and canister sludge. Mixed and unmixed and fractionated KE canister sludge were tested, along with floor and pit sludges from areas in the KE Basin not previously sampled. The first report in this series focuses on gas generation from KE floor and canister sludge collected using a consolidated sampling technique. The third report presents results of gas generation testing of irradiated uranium fuel fragments with and without sludge addition. The path forward for management of the K Basin Sludge is to retrieve, ship, and store the sludge at T Plant until final processing at some future date. Gas generation will impact the designs and costs of systems associated with retrieval, transportation and storage of sludge. This report was originally published in March 2001. In January 2004, a transcription error was discovered in the value reported for the uranium metal content of KE North Loadout Pit sample FE-3. This revision of the report corrects the U metal content of FE-3 from 0.0013 wt% to 0.013 wt%.