Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites

Perspectives from Hanford
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35672-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites provides an overview of the key elements involved in remediating complex waste sites using the Hanford nuclear site as a case study. Hanford is one of the most complex waste sites in the world and has examples of most, if not all, characteristics of the complex waste sites that exist globally. This book is aimed at a non-technical audience and describes the stages of remediation based on general RCRA/CERCLA processes, from establishing a strategy that includes all stakeholders to site assessment, waste treatment and disposal, and long-term monitoring.

Features:

- Informs a non-technical audience of the important elements involved in complex waste site remediation

- Employs the Hanford Site as a case study throughout to explain real-world applications of remediation steps

- Connects the “human” element to the technical aspects through interviews with key current and retired individuals at the Hanford Site

- Includes discussion of stakeholders and the engagement process in remediation

- Demonstrates how all elements of complex waste site remediation from demolition of buildings to groundwater management are interrelated

- Focuses on broader technical and sociopolitical challenges for remediation of a contaminated site

Aimed at a broad audience, this book offers approachable guidance to technical and non-technical readers through a series of real-world examples that cover each important step in the complex waste cleanup process.

Zielgruppe

Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arm, Stuart T.

Emerson, Hilary P.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Atomenergietechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Technologien für Fossile Energieträger
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Site Assessment and Characterization

Stuart T. Arm and Hilary P. Emerson

Chapter 1 Developing a Remediation Framework

Katherine A. Muller, Courtney L. H. Bottenus, and Christian D. Johnson

Chapter 2 Stakeholder Perspectives and Environmental Remediation

Ellen Prendergast-Kennedy

PART II Site Assessment and Characterization

Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson

Chapter 3 Characterization of a Uranium Groundwater Plume along the Columbia River

Amanda R. Lawter and Michelle M.V. Snyder

Chapter 4 Plutonium Finishing Plant Building and Subsurface

Waste Release Characterization

Calvin H. Delegard, Carolyn I. Pearce, Hilary P. Emerson, Andrea M. Hopkins, and Theodore J. Venetz

Chapter 5 Tank Waste Characterization: History, Challenges, and Successes

Emily Campbell, Carolyne Burns, and Richard Daniel

Chapter 6 Waste Tank Structural Assessment

Christopher Grant and Naveen Karri

PART III Remedy Screening, Evaluation, and Testing

Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson

Chapter 7 Soil Desiccation Treatability Testing at BC Waste Disposal Cribs

Adam R. Mangel and Christopher E. Strickland

Chapter 8 Wasteform Development and Qualification for Tank Waste

Vitrification and Disposal

Jose Marcial and Derek Dixon

Chapter 9 Plutonium Finishing Plant Demolition and Interim Subsurface Disposal Structure Stabilization

Calvin H. Delegard, Carolyn I. Pearce, Hilary P. Emerson, Andrea M. Hopkins, and Theodore J. Venetz

PART IV Remedial Action

Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson

Chapter 10 Groundwater Remediation with Pump-and-Treat Technology

Sarah Saslow and Christian D. Johnson

Chapter 11 Enhanced Attenuation of Uranium in the Subsurface

Amanda R. Lawter and Michelle M.V. Snyder

Chapter 12 Retrieval of Tank Waste from Storage

Matthew Fountain and Beric Wells

Chapter 13 Integrated Waste Treatment Flowsheet and Interface Management Strategy

Jennifer A. Kadinger and Courtney L. H. Bottenus

Chapter 14 Tank Waste Disposal

R. Matthew Asmussen

PART V Long-Term Stewardship and Future Land Use

Vicky L. Freedman and Nicolas J. Huerta

Chapter 15 End State: Vision for Future Land Use at Hanford

Vicky L. Freedman and Nicolas J. Huerta

Chapter 16 Afterword

Nikolla P. Qafoku

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Stuart T. Arm is a senior technical advisor who returned to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2019 after 12 years working in industry. Dr. Arm holds a PhD and MEng in chemical engineering from Imperial College, London, and has 30 years’ experience in national laboratories and the nuclear industry in the United Kingdom and the United States. He establishes PNNL and DOE strategic plans and objectives for radiochemical process flowsheets and technologies for treating and managing radioactive waste and commercial used nuclear fuel while acknowledging emerging national and international trends. Dr. Arm employs a collaborative and leading approach to technology and flowsheet maturation and integration to establish implementation strategies with multitechnical and organizational elements.

Dr. Hilary P. Emerson’s research focuses on the fate and remediation of radionuclides with experimental testing from the laboratory to the field scale. She holds a BS in Environmental Engineering (2009) from the University of Central Florida and a PhD in Environmental Engineering and Earth Science (2014) from Clemson University. Since joining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2019, her work has focused primarily on the development of new remediation technologies for radionuclides and techniques for monitoring remediation technologies.