Published April 1992 | Version v1
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Hanford Site Tank Waste Remediation System

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Description

The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State has the most diverse and largest amount of highly radioactive waste of any site in the United States. High-level radioactive waste has been stored in large underground tanks since 1944. Approximately 227,000 m3 (60 Mgal) of caustic liquids, slurries, saltcakes, and sludges have accumulated in 177 tanks. In addition, significant amounts of 90Sr and 137Cs were removed from the tank waste, converted to salts, doubly encapsulated in metal containers, and stored in water basins. A Tank Waste Remediation System has been established to safely manage these wastes and then to dispose of them. Implementing this system will require resolving several waste tank safety issues and maintaining safe storage, and then retrieving, treating, and disposing the waste onsite or packaging it for offsite disposal

Availability note (English)

MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE92015832; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
Report number
WHC-SA--1545

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
23079681
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
Descriptors DEI
CESIUM 137; HANFORD RESERVATION; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PACKAGING; PLANNING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SAFETY; SALTS; SLUDGES; SLURRIES; STRONTIUM 90; TANKS
Descriptors DEC
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; CONTAINERS; DISPERSIONS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MIXTURES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SUSPENSIONS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC06-87RL10930
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).