The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to accelerate tank waste treatment completion by 20 years. Achieving this goal will require a significant increase in processing rate over the Waste Treatment Plant capacity. One approach is to conduct supplemental processing external to the WTP. CHG will issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will enable them to select the most mature and feasible technologies that can be demonstrated to increase capacity for treatment of Hanford waste. This report provides preliminary testing recommendations to support evaluation, down selection, and demonstration of waste treatment processes for the Mission Acceleration Initiative. The testing recommendations will serve as a guide to potential vendors for designing their test program in response to the RFP the recommendations describe the data needed for DOE to evaluate the technologies and for the proposer to prepare a preconceptual design for treatment that will achieve the ultimate goal of Hanford tank waste treatment. This revision incorporates comments from a national peer review of the original issue.
Revised: January 17, 2011 |
Published: March 28, 2003