Large underground radioactive waste storage tanks successfully cleaned at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Creators
- 1. Solutions to Environmental Problems, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- 2. Providence Group, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- 3. Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- 4. Dept. of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- 5. Lockheed Martin Energy Research, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Description
Waste retrieval operations were successfully completed in two large underground radioactive waste storage tanks in 1997. The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Gunite Tanks Team worked cooperatively during two 10-week waste removal campaigns and removed approximately 58,300 gallons of waste from the tanks. About 100 gallons of a sludge and liquid heel remain in each of the 42,500 gallon tanks. These tanks are 25 ft. in diameter and 11 ft. deep, and are located in the North Tank Farm in the center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Less than 2% of the radioactive contaminants remain in the tanks, proving the effectiveness of the Radioactive Tank Cleaning System, and accomplishing the first field-scale cleaning of contaminated underground storage tanks with a robotic system in the DOE complex
Availability note (English)
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 11 p.
- Report number
- ORNL/CP--98309
Conference
- Title
- nuclear and hazardous waste management international topical meeting
- Acronym
- SPECTRUM '98
- Dates
- 13-18 Sep 1998
- Place
- Denver, CO (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 30012437
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- DESIGN; ORNL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; REMEDIAL ACTION; REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT; WASTE RETRIEVAL
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUIPMENT; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; STORAGE; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC05-98OR22700
- Funding organization
- USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States); USDOE Office of Financial Management and Controller, Washington, DC (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-980905--