AdamSmith Posted March 15, 2018 Posted March 15, 2018 Just a cheery little reminder from 1998, whose effects remain still far from remediatIon today. The underground plume of leakage from these tanks is creeping ever closer to the Columbia River. HANFORD TANK WASTE REMEDIATION SYSTEM HIGH-LEVEL WASTE CHEMISTRY MANUAL Prepared for Nuclear Regulatory Commission Contract NRC-02-97-009 ABSTRACT The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to privatize the waste treatment and immobilization operations of the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) program. A Memorandum of Understanding has been established between the DOE and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the first phase of the TWRS program. To assist the NRC in developing technical and regulatory tools for the TWRS privatization effort, the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses is providing the NRC with information and tools needed to assess the chemical, radiological, and criticality hazards of Hanford tank wastes and operations addressed under the privatization initiative. Of primary concern are those reactions that could occur during waste retrieval and processing, but potential reactions during continued interim storage are also important... https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0336/ML033640258.pdf Quote
AdamSmith Posted March 15, 2018 Author Posted March 15, 2018 Hanford's Hot Tanks http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph241/eason2/ Quote
