Removing Cesium: Solutions to a Chemically Complex Problem

The evolution of cesium removal technology. In 2008, Peterson and other researchers at PNNL successfully demonstrated in a pilot project that they could remove cesium using a system set next to a nuclear waste tank. Plugging a removal system directly into a single tank was shown to be a cost-effective approach.Web

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Beyond the headlines: Japan's treatment and release of …

To complete this process, TEPCO uses two initial cesium-removal systems named Kurion and SARRY, which remove 99.99 percent of cesium, followed by a desalination system that purifies the water to be reused as coolant. The waste from the desalination process is then moved to storage tanks to be processed by a further …Web

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Cesium Removal from SY-101 Tank Waste Using Crystalline …

The Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system is a technology demonstration that will remove cesium from tank waste supernate to support directly feeding LAW to the vitrification facility. The 137 Cs removal is important more » to meet the WTP LAW contract specification and ultimately for creating a contact-handled waste form.Web

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Welcome Home to Hanford, Tank-Side Cesium Removal System

The white enclosures of the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system are visible adjacent to the Hanford Site's AP Tank Farm. In the background is the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, where waste pre-treated by TSCR will be heated to 2,100 degrees. RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers recently moved three enclosures that …Web

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Tank-Side Cesium Removal

The Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system will filter undissolved solid material and remove cesium, which accounts for 99.9% of the radioactivity in the waste steam, …Web

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Evaluation of cesium selective media at the Callaway Plant

The current BNFL Inc. flow sheet for the pretreatment of the Hanford High-Level tank wastes includes the use of Superlig{reg_sign} materials for the removal of {sup 137}Cs from the aqueous fraction of the waste. The Superlig materials applicable to cesium removal include the cesium selective Superlig 632 and Superlig 644.Web

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Removing cesium: Solutions to a chemically complex problem

As of today, with supporting research from PNNL, staff at Hanford have removed cesium from more than 697,000 gallons of tank waste—a significant milestone in cleanup progress at …Web

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Removing cesium: Solutions to a chemically complex …

As of today, with supporting research from PNNL, staff at Hanford have removed cesium from more than 697,000 gallons of tank waste—a significant milestone in cleanup …Web

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Safety Basis Assessment at the Hanford Site Tank Farms …

incorporating the Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) Facility into tank farm operations at the Hanford Site. The tank farm safety basis has been amended to include the TSCR Facility and operations, which will provide an ion-exchange process to separate cesium-137 from tank waste and store the spent ion-exchangeWeb

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Ion Exchange Processing of AP-105 Hanford Tank Waste through

The Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system is a technology demonstration that will remove cesium from tank waste supernate to support directly feeding LAW to the vitrification facility. The 137 Cs removal is important more » to meet the WTP LAW contract specification and ultimately for creating a contact-handled waste form.Web

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Review of Ion Exchange Technologies for Cesium Removal from …

ABSTRACT This article reviews the historical uses of and current research into ion exchange for the removal of cesium from defense-related nuclear waste streams. Emphasis is placed on key attributes of the two current leading ion exchangers for Cs removal: spherical resorcinol-formaldehyde, an elutable organic resin, and crystalline …Web

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Hanford Tank-Side Cesium Removal System Readied to Treat …

Today, EM announced construction and readiness assessments are complete on the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system at Hanford, an EM 2021 …Web

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TANK SIDE CESIUM REMOVAL

Overview Background DFLAW Projects Engineering Organization TSCR Origin Waste Feed Delivery (WFD) WFD = Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) + Tank …Web

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Cesium ion exchange using actual waste: Column size …

The Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system is a technology demonstration that will remove cesium from tank waste supernate to support directly feeding LAW to the vitrification facility. The 137 Cs removal is important more » to meet the WTP LAW contract specification and ultimately for creating a contact-handled waste form.Web

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Waste Removal for Tank Closure Project Underway at …

AIKEN, S.C. – EM is taking a significant step in the startup of Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Crews have initiated salt dissolution, the first phase of TCCR operations, …Web

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TANK SIDE CESIUM REMOVAL

Tank side cesium removal system as a "first feed" solution Optimized LAWPS for long- term LAW Vitrification feed • ORP issued RFP for Technology Demonstration of TSCR capability Provide system to meet LAW Vit waste acceptance criteria Enable WTP LAW Vit to complete hot commissioning by 12/2021Web

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(PDF) Cesium Removal from Savannah River Site

Cesium Removal from Savannah River Site Radioactive Waste using the Caustic‐Side Solvent Extraction (CSSX) Process ... where over 28 million liters of highly radioactive alkaline tank waste have ...Web

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WM2022 Conference, March 6 10, 2022, Phoenix, Arizona, …

accelerated tank closure initiative. The Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR) project has successfully operated to treat waste from Tank 10H preparing it for immobilization. TCCR has successfully treated over 200,000 gallons of tank waste [6, 7]. The TCCR filter successfully performed its function of protecting the IX columns during operation.Web

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Hanford Resumes Tank Waste Processing | Department of Energy

RICHLAND, Wash. – The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) have resumed processing tank waste through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System at the Hanford Site following a second, planned maintenance outage.. The treatment system has processed more than …Web

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Removing cesium: Solutions to a chemically co | EurekAlert!

At the Hanford Site, it is called the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system. TSCR pretreats waste in a system built inside a shipping container, where steel columns are placed inside with a forklift.Web

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Processing of Hanford, WA, site nuclear waste in tanks begun

The first industrial-scale processing of radioactive tank waste to prepare it for disposal has begun, site officials announced Wednesday. Early on Jan. 26, the Tank Side Cesium Removal System, or ...Web

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Safety Basis Development for the Tank Closure Cesium Removal …

The Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR) system is a Savannah River Site (SRS) demonstration 'at-tank' process designed to remove {sup 137}Cs from the high-level aqueous tank waste so that the decontaminated solution can be disposed as low-level waste. Cesium is removed by ion exchange (IX) columns using engineered IONSIV{sup …Web

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Removing cesium: Solutions to a chemically complex …

Peterson is the project manager who brought the cesium removal technology from bench scale to full height demonstration, giving the tank farm operator confidence to proceed with full-scale operations.Web

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Removing Cesium: Solutions to a Chemically Complex Problem

Removing cesium, five gallons per minute. Peterson is the project manager who brought the cesium removal technology from bench scale to full height demonstration, giving the tank farm operator ...Web

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NEXT-GENERATION CAUSTIC-SIDE SOLVENT EXTRACTION …

This paper describes the chemical performance of the Next-Generation Caustic-Side Solvent Extraction (NG-CSSX) process in its current state of development for removal of cesium from the alkaline high-level tank wastes at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in the US Department of Energy (USDOE) complex.Web

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Hanford's cesium removal system begins waste …

The Department of Energy announced on Wednesday that the first large-scale treatment of radioactive and chemical waste from underground tanks at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., has begun …Web

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EM Prepares to Test Hanford Tank Waste Treatment System

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions has begun testing a critical piece of equipment needed to treat Hanford Site tank waste. Since delivering the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system enclosures in September, workers have installed and tested …Web

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Hanford Tank-Side Cesium Removal System Readied to …

A 's eye view inside the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system's process enclosure. Construction and readiness assessments are complete, and in just a few months, TSCR is scheduled to begin treating waste currently stored in large underground tanks in preparation for vitrification, the process of immobilizing waste in glass.Web

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Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW)

The Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system separates both cesium and undissolved solid materials from radioactive tank waste, providing a low-activity waste stream that can be sent to the Waste Treatment and …Web

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Cesium Removal from AP-105 Hanford Tank Waste Using …

@article{osti_1706103, title = {Cesium Removal from AP-105 Hanford Tank Waste Using Spherical Resorcinol Formaldehyde Resin}, author = {Fiskum, Sandra K. and Colburn, Heather A. and Rovira, Amy M. and Allred, Jarrod R. and Smoot, Margaret R. and Peterson, Reid A. and Landon, Matthew R. and Colosi, Kristin A.}, abstractNote = …Web

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Environmental Management & Nuclear Waste Disposal

Hanford: Tank-Side Cesium Removal System • On June 18, 2022, processing resumed following a maintenance outage (Batch 2). • As of June 29, 2002, 227,283 gallons of waste has been processed through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System. • On target for 500,000 gallons of waste through TSCR by September 30, 2022.Web

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Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste

The U.S. Department of Energy is on the verge of achieving a cleanup commitment that has been decades in the making: treating Hanford tank waste through the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program. The "direct-feed" portion refers to the waste being separated to remove the more radioactive portion so that the resulting low …Web

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Oversight Reports

Independent Assessment of Work Planning and Control at the Hanford Site Tank Farms. October 17, 2023. Independent Assessment of Software Quality Assurance Program Implementation at the Hanford Site - October 2023 ... Independent Assessment of Conduct of Operations at the Hanford Site Tank-Side Cesium Removal Facility - …Web

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Cesium Ion Exchange with Crystalline Silicotitanate Literature …

The Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system is a technology demonstration that will remove cesium from tank waste supernate to support directly feeding LAW to the vitrification facility. The 137 Cs removal is important more » to meet the WTP LAW contract specification and ultimately for creating a contact-handled waste form.Web

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Innovative Tank Waste Processing Technology Resumes at …

The innovative cesium-removal technology finished processing a batch of radioactive liquid waste last month, moving the TCCR feed tank, Tank 10, closer to final closure. It was the third batch of salt waste processed at SRS since the site began using TCCR in early 2019. EM and liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation (SRR) …Web

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