Demonstration of the Tank Farm Washing Process and the DWPF SRAT Cycle with Sludge Batch 3 Simulant and Precipitated Pu/Gd Mixture from H-Canyon Tank 18.3

Fellinger, T.L.

Savannah River Site (S.C.)

关键词: Sludges;    Waste Processing;    Storage Facilities;    Washing;    11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials;   

DOI  :  10.2172/801925
RP-ID  :  WSRC-TR-2002-00208
RP-ID  :  AC09-96SR18500
RP-ID  :  801925

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Nuclear Materials Management Division (NMMD) has proposed that certain Pu solutions stored in H-Canyon be disposed to H-Tank Farm. These solutions contain significant inventories of plutonium. The Pu/Gd mixture (along with the sludge slurry from Tank 7 and Am/Cm solution) will be processed as a part of Sludge Batch 3. Sludge Batch 3 is the next sludge batch of feed for the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF). In order to prepare the feed for DWPF, the sludge slurry will be washed to approximately 0.55 M Na in the supernate. This report addresses the glove box work with a Sludge Batch 3 simulant and a Pu/Gd mixture precipitated from H-Canyon Tank 18.3. The main objective of this experimental work was to determine the behavior of the Pu and Gd during the Tank Farm washing process and the SRAT process.