Benchmarking the Remote-Handled Waste Facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project | |
Mendiratta, O. P. ; Ploetz, D. K. | |
United States. West Valley Demonstration Project Act. | |
关键词: Remote-Handled Waste Facility; High-Level Waste Management; Radioactive Wastes; Valleys; 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials; | |
DOI : 10.2172/766180 RP-ID : DOE/NE/44139-91 RP-ID : AC24-81NE44139 RP-ID : 766180 |
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美国|英语 | |
来源: UNT Digital Library | |
【 摘 要 】
ABSTRACT Facility decontamination activities at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), the site of a former commercial nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility near Buffalo, New York, have resulted in the removal of radioactive waste. Due to high dose and/or high contamination levels of this waste, it needs to be handled remotely for processing and repackaging into transport/disposal-ready containers. An initial conceptual design for a Remote-Handled Waste Facility (RHWF), completed in June 1998, was estimated to cost $55 million and take 11 years to process the waste. Benchmarking the RHWF with other facilities around the world, completed in November 1998, identified unique facility design features and innovative waste pro-cessing methods. Incorporation of the benchmarking effort has led to a smaller yet fully functional, $31 million facility. To distinguish it from the June 1998 version, the revised design is called the Rescoped Remote-Handled Waste Facility (RRHWF) in this topical report. The conceptual design for the RRHWF was completed in June 1999. A design-build contract was approved by the Department of Energy in September 1999.
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