Overview of the Savannah River Site high level waste storage tank structural qualification program

The Savannah River Site currently has fifty one waste storage tanks, with approximately thirty-four million gallons of high level waste. These structures were constructed from the mid 1950s to the early 1980s under a variety of design criteria. These tanks are being requalified for natural phenomena hazards (NPH) loads associated with the NPH analysis of waste storage tanks; fluid-structure-soil interaction of tanks contained in underground vaults; structure to structure interaction; seismically induced settlement; and impact loads from seismic or tornado induced collapse of secondary structures