Decontamination and Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

ISBN-13: 9781468437126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 804 str.

Marilyn M. Osterhout; Marilyn M. Osterhout

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This vOlume contains the invited and contributed papers pre sented at the American Nuclear Society (ANS) meeting on Decontamina tion and Decommissioning (D & D) of Nuclear Facilities, held Septem ber 16-20, 1979, in Sun Valley, Idaho. This was the first U. S. meeting of the ANS which addressed both of these important and related subjects. The meeting was attended by more than 400 engineers, scientists, laymen, and representatives of federal, state, and local governments, including participants from eleven foreign countries. The technical sessions included several sessions concentrating on ongoing D & D programs in the U. S. and abroad. In addition, "new ground" was broken in such areas as decommissioning costs and cost recovery, advanced programs on reactor coolant filtration, and other areas of continuing and increasing importance to the nuclear industry and to consumers. The dual sponsorship of the meeting (The ANS Reactor Operations Division and the Eastern Idaho Section of the ANS) helped spur a high quality program, a pleasant location, and a high degree of suc cess in technical interchange between the attendees. As guest speaker, we were honored to have Mr. Vince Boyer of Philadelphia Electric Company. Mr. Boyer is both a past chairman of the ANS Reactor Operations Division and a past president of the American Nuclear Society. His views on the nuclear industry and of its current status were informative and interesting."

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Decontamination: The Utility Viewpoint.- A Review of Recent D & D Program Activities in the International Community.- NRC View of Decontamination and Decommissioning.- Department of Energy Programs for Decontamination and Decommissioning.- Decommissioning Standards.- A State’s Perspective.- Power Plant Decontamination (Part I).- Review of Plant Decontamination Methods.- Chemical Decontamination of KWU Reactor Installations.- Candidate Reagents for Activity Reduction in BWR and PWR Primary Systems.- Design Considerations for PHWR Decontamination.- Decontamination Experience in Ontario Hydro.- Decontamination of the Hanford N-Reactor in Support of Continued Operation.- Experience in Decontamination and Operation of Radwaste Evaporators at Commonwealth Edison’s Zion Generating Station.- Decontamination for Continued Operation: An Industry-Wide Approach.- Decontamination and Decommissioning of Fuel Cycle and Research Facilities (Part I).- Decommissioning of Commercial Shallow-Land Burial Sites.- Soil Decontamination at Rocky Flats.- Analysis of Soil Samples from OMRE Decommissioning Project.- Low-Level Radioactive Waste from Rare Metals Processing Facilities.- Decommissioning a Tritium Glove-Box Facility.- Decontamination and Refurbishment of the Hot Fuel Examination Facility South (HFEF/S) Argon Cell.- A Decommissioning Plan for Particle Accelerators.- Volume Reduction of Radioactive Waste Resulting from Decontamination of Surplus Nuclear Facilities.- Power Plant Decontamination (Part II).- Engineering Aspects of Dresden Unit I Chemical Cleaning.- Results to Date of the Dresden-I Chemical Cleaning.- Dissolution Characteristics of Metal Oxides in Water Cooled Reactors.- TEPCO BWR Decontamination Experience.- Dilute Chemical Decontamination Program Review.- Research and Development on BWR-System Decontamination in Sweden.- In SITU Decontamination of Parts of the Primary Loops at The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant.- Power Reactor Decommissioning (Part I).- U. S. Licensed Reactor Decommissioning Experience.- Experience and Plans for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Reactors in OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency Countries.- Decommissioning Situation in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Decommissioning Peach Bottom Unit 1.- The Use of Engineering Scale Models in Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities.- Planning for Decommissioning of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station.- Power Reactor Decommissioning (Part II).- Residual Activity Limits for Decommissioning.- Design Considerations for Facility Decommissioning.- Decommissioning Methods and Equipment.- Equipment for Remote Dismantling.- The Decontamination of Concrete.- Demolition of Concrete Structures by Heat: A Preliminary Study.- Planning Study and Economic Feasibility for Extended Life Operation of Light Water Reactor Plants.- Decontamination and Decommissioning of Fuel Cycle and Research Facilities (Part II).- ECT Remedial Action Program.- Management of the DOE Inventory of Excess Radioactively Contaminated Facilities.- Summary of the Development of a Cost/Risk/ Benefit Analysis for the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the Hanford Z-Plant.- OMRE and Hallam Decommissioning Projects at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.- Three Vessel Replacements at Chalk River.- Decommissioning the Sodium Reactor Experiment: A Status Report.- Hanford Production Reactor Decommissioning.- Radiation Field and Exposure Control.- The Impact of Decontamination on LWR Radioactive Waste Management Treatment Systems.- Occupational Exposure and ALARA.- Radiation Control in PWR Primary Systems.- Coolant Chemistry Control During PWR Shutdown-Cooldown.- Effect of High-Temperature Filtration on PWR Plant Radiation Fields.- The French Program on Electromagnetic Filtration.- BWR Radiation Control Through Operational Practices.- Radiation Exposure, Radiation Control and Decontamination.- Economic Aspects of Power Reactor Decommissioning.- Evaluating Decommissioning Costs for Nuclear Power Plants.- Optimization of Costs Versus Radiation Exposures in Decommissioning.- State Regulatory Impact on Reactor Decommissioning: Financing Approaches and Their Cost.- An Analysis of Decommissioning Costs and Funding.- Financial Aspects of Power Reactor Decommissioning.- Financial and Accounting Alternatives for the Recovery of Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Costs.- Methods of Power Reactor Decommissioning Cost Recovery.- Appendix A: The Call for Responsible Regulation.