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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
D. J. Sherwood, C. L. Crawford, T. L. White, C. E. Duffey, T. B. Calloway
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 158 | Number 1 | January 2008 | Pages 88-96
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE08-A2741
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Ventilation and mixing systems in the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are being designed to account for the flammable gas hydrogen that will form in process streams, just as it also does in the radioactive liquid wastes awaiting immobilization at the Hanford Tank Farms. Tank wastes forming hydrogen at the highest rates do so by reactions involving dissolved organic complexant compounds, even though hydrogen is also formed by the better known radiolysis pathway. Hydrogen generation rates (HGRs) are predicted with a correlation relating waste properties to reaction pathways involving radiolysis of water and the degradation of organic compounds. This correlation accounts only for aqueous phase reactions. An antifoam agent (AFA) will be added to waste processed in the WTP. This organic liquid mixture is immiscible in aqueous systems and will therefore form a nonaqueous phase liquid layer on the processed waste, unless some of its compounds are unstable in the hostile physical/chemical environment and break down into soluble degradation products. Dissolved organic species increase the organic source term in the WTP HGR correlation, but the correlation requires adaptation to address hydrogen formed from immiscible organic liquids. Here, we report our initial evaluation of the hydrogen formed by 60Co gamma irradiation of a waste simulant containing Dow Corning Q2-3183A AFA with an adapted WTP HGR correlation.