Treatment and storage of high-level radioactive waste in the Defense Waste Processing Facility and the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant.

摘要

The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) and the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant (HWVP) projects will provide similar facilities for producing vitrified high-level defense waste in scaled, stainless-steel canisters. The respective production sites will also provide interim storage for at least some of the canistered waste pending availability of a permanent repository. The canistered waste form will be produced under stringent controls to support final placement in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) licensed, deep geological repository.