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Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment:Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R & D Activity as of Fall 1998 Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment:Spring 1998 Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R & D Activity Other Related Titles Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R & D Activity Through Spring 1997 (1997) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "External Technical Experts." Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R & D Activity Through Spring 1997. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997. Please select a format: Page 17   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. test methods7 may provide QT capabilities that are complementary or superior to the vapor-hydration and drip-test methods developed by ANL. Many of the proposed QT testing methods also specify instructions for post-test analyses of solids and solutions. As part of its QT investigations, ANL ought to examine the necessity and sufficiency of such proposed solids and solution analyses with respect to the unique characteristics of the ANL ceramic waste form. Summary on Waste Form Qualification ANL is apparently decoupling its waste form QT program from the criteria for successful demonstration of its electrometallurgical process by June 1999. The committee believes that this separation can be justified only if ANL maintains a sustained, high-level commitment to its proposed QT program up to and after the June 1999 demonstration. It is important that progress on QT with respect to both ceramic and metal waste forms be demonstrated by June 1999. Delays, redirection, or postponements of planned QT activities could have serious and potentially adverse implications for the feasibility of wide application of ANL's electrometallurgical processing technique. Any proposed programmatic changes in waste form qualification should be carefully evaluated by DOE. DOE should establish acceptance criteria for waste forms scheduled for storage in a geologic repository. Although the final acceptance criteria will have to be approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and be consistent with the yet-to-be-published repository regulations, ANL's electrometallurgical technology program currently is forced to assume that its own definition will be acceptable. DOE should provide its best guidance to ensure that the Argonne approach is useful. External Technical Experts At the current stage of the ANL R&D program, the committee suggests that ANL utilize external technical experts in specific scientific areas of the program. These technical experts should be recognized for their in-depth knowledge in particular technical areas. Whereas the National Research Council committee has provided an overall program evaluation and policy recommendations, the proposed experts would examine technical details of the R&D. They would address such issues as: process and equipment flow sheets, materials of construction, equipment operability, 7   Examples include unsaturated flow simulation using ultracentrifugation (Conca et al., 1997) and the partially unsaturated flow (PUF) test (McGrail et al., 1997). Page 17 Front Matter (R1-R8) Contents (R9-R10) Executive Summary (1-3) Background (4-4) Ongoing Evaluation Activity (5-5) Status of the EBR-II Spent Fuel Treatment Demonstration for 1999 (6-8) Demonstration Project Implementation Plan (9-9) Adequacy of the Criteria for Evaluating the Demonstration (10-10) Electrometallurgical Techniques for Treatment of Other DOE Spent Fuels (11-12) Waste Forms (13-16) External Technical Experts (17-17) References (18-19) Appendix A: Meeting Agendas (20-21) Appendix B: Abbreviations Used (22-22) Appendix C: Project History (23-24)

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ELECTROMETALLURGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DOE SPENT FUEL TREATMENT: STATUS REPORT ON ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY'S R&D ACTIVITY THROUGH SPRING 1997 test methods7 may provide QT capabilities that are complementary or superior to the vapor-hydration and drip-test methods developed by ANL. Many of the proposed QT testing methods also specify instructions for post-test analyses of solids and solutions. As part of its QT investigations, ANL ought to examine the necessity and sufficiency of such proposed solids and solution analyses with respect to the unique characteristics of the ANL ceramic waste form. Summary on Waste Form Qualification ANL is apparently decoupling its waste form QT program from the criteria for successful demonstration of its electrometallurgical process by June 1999. The committee believes that this separation can be justified only if ANL maintains a sustained, high-level commitment to its proposed QT program up to and after the June 1999 demonstration. It is important that progress on QT with respect to both ceramic and metal waste forms be demonstrated by June 1999. Delays, redirection, or postponements of planned QT activities could have serious and potentially adverse implications for the feasibility of wide application of ANL's electrometallurgical processing technique. Any proposed programmatic changes in waste form qualification should be carefully evaluated by DOE. DOE should establish acceptance criteria for waste forms scheduled for storage in a geologic repository. Although the final acceptance criteria will have to be approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and be consistent with the yet-to-be-published repository regulations, ANL's electrometallurgical technology program currently is forced to assume that its own definition will be acceptable. DOE should provide its best guidance to ensure that the Argonne approach is useful. External Technical Experts At the current stage of the ANL R&D program, the committee suggests that ANL utilize external technical experts in specific scientific areas of the program. These technical experts should be recognized for their in-depth knowledge in particular technical areas. Whereas the National Research Council committee has provided an overall program evaluation and policy recommendations, the proposed experts would examine technical details of the R&D. They would address such issues as: process and equipment flow sheets, materials of construction, equipment operability, 7   Examples include unsaturated flow simulation using ultracentrifugation (Conca et al., 1997) and the partially unsaturated flow (PUF) test (McGrail et al., 1997).

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