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The Hanford Site and Spent Nuclear Fuel

ANALYZING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL PROJECT AT THE HANFORD SITE

This research analyzes the Spent Nuclear Fuel Project (SNFP) at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site at Richland, Washington. The purpose of the long-term project is to remediate the deteriorating spent nuclear fuel stored underwater in the K-Basins at the Hanford Site (United States Department of Energy 1). This research provides background information on the problem that led to the SNFP, provides detailed information on the SNFP, and analyzes the performance of the SNFP.

The designation "Hanford Site" refers to the parts of the Department of Energy's Hanford Facility where spent nuclear fuels are stored. The designation "Hanford Site" also is the name given by the Department of Energy to the Department's contractor organization that acts as the project manager for the remediation activities of the SNFP. The contractor, Hanford Site, is located in Richland, Washington and the Department of Energy owns the contractor. The Hanford Site project manager engages private sector organizations as sub-contractors in the management of the SNFP (United States Department of Energy 2).

The Hanford facility, built in the early-1940s in south central Washington State, was a center of plutonium production for the United States nuclear weapons program. The United States government constructed nine plutonium production reactors and five reprocessing plants. These facilities chemically separated plutonium from uranium and from fission products at the Hanford Facility from 1943 through 1963 (Fioravanti and Makhijani 24).

The operations at the Hanford Facility generated massive quantities of high-level liquid waste containing fission products (such as technetium-99, cesium-137, and strontium-90) and residuals of plutonium, uranium, and other heavy radioactive elements. The scale and complexity of the nuclear wastes at the Hanford Facility made the Hanfo...

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