Increasing TRUPACT-II wattage limits: two technical approaches
Description
More than one-third of the drums in DOE's TRU waste inventory cannot be presently shipped to WIPP in the TRUPACT-11 because they exceed the allowed limit of heat generation by virtue of radioactive decay. This limit was imposed to ensure that the amount of hydrogen generated by radiolysis does not achieve the lower explosive limit of hydrogen in air (5 percent v/v). Los Alamos is working to justify increasing these wattage limits: (1) by demonstrating that the phenomenon of matrix depletion greatly reduces the potential for hydrogen generation and (2) by investigating the use hydrogen getters to actively remove hydrogen from the headspace of the waste drums and/or the TRUPACT-11
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Available from INIS in electronic form and/or on microfiche ; Also available from OSTI as DE97003130; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 9 p.
- Report number
- LA-UR--96-4090
Conference
- Title
- Waste Management '97.
- Dates
- 2-7 Mar 1997.
- Place
- Tucson, AZ (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 29006490
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; COMBUSTION; CONTAINERS; FLAMMABILITY; HYDROGEN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; REGULATIONS; WASTE HEAT; WIPP
- Descriptors DEC
- CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMBUSTION PROPERTIES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; OXIDATION; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract W-7405-ENG-36
- Funding organization
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States).
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-970335--17.