Addressing Challenging Remote-Handled Deactivation and Decommissioning Waste at ORNL

摘要

Since the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been engaged in developing processes for implementation in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) production facilities and in producing radioisotopes for medical and industrial applications. These activities have resulted in a large variety of unique remote-handled legacy waste and contaminated hot cell facilities. DOE has established a project to dispose of the ORNL legacy waste and to deactivate, decontaminate, and decommission ORNL facilities that are no longer needed for the mission. Capabilities are needed to characterize, treat, package, and dispose of various remote-handled solid waste streams for which no treatment capability currently exists at ORNL.