Title: Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant process description, process advancements, and Hanford Site interfaces
Abstract: Westinghouse Hanford Company has the lead responsibility for development, design, construction, and operation of the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant. The Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant will be built for the US Department of Energy to vitrify existing and future liquid high-level and transuranic wastes produced by defense activities at the Hanford Site. Start of construction is scheduled for mid-1991. Hot startup currently is scheduled for December 1999, and acceleration of the hot startup schedule is under consideration. Requirements related to interfaces with existing Hanford Site facilities and other site-specific requirements are discussed in this paper. Design of the feed transfer and lag storage, radioactive liquid waste treatment and recycle, and process offgas treatment systems is significantly affected by site-specific requirements. Recent development in design of these systems are described. 9 figs., 1 tab.