Proceedings of the ASME

14th International Conference on

Environmental Remediation and

Radioactive Waste Management

-2011 -

Part A

presented at

ASME 2011 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND

RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

SEPTEMBER 25-29, 201 1

REIMS, FRANCE

sponsored byNUCLEAR ENGINEERING DIVISION, ASME

ASME

Three Park Avenue * New York, N.Y. 10016

CONTENTS

PART A

ADVANCED L/ILW CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGIES

ICEM2011-59008 1

Immobilisation of Radwaste in Synthetic Rock: An Alternative to Cementation

Bernard Rottner

ICEM2011-59021 5

Cementitious Materials for Radioactive Waste Management Within IAEA Coordinated

Research ProjectZoran Drace and Michael I. Ojovan

ICEM2011-59102 15

Elution Behavior of Heavy Metals From Cement Solidified Products of

Incinerated Ash Waste

Yoshihiro Meguro, Yoshimi Kawato, Takuya Nakayama, Osamu Tomioka, and

Motoyuki Mitsuda

ICEM2011-59116 21

Advanced Drying System to Meet Radiolysis Criteria of Metallic Waste

Masamichi Obata and Yasushi Ooishi

ICEM2011-59172 25

Applying Fluid Dynamics Simulations to Improve Processing and Remediation of

Nuclear Waste

Kelly J. Knight, Jon Berkoe, Brigette Rosendall, Joel Peltier, and Chris Kennedy

APPLYING STRATEGIC PLANNING, DECISION-MAKING AND

RISK REDUCTION METHODOLOGIES IN EM

ICEM2011-59148 33

Can Sustainability Be Applied to Our Remediation Challenges?Pefer Booth and Vicky Gaskin

CONTRIBUTION AND COMPLEMENTARIES OF INTERIM STORAGE,GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL, PARTITIONING AND TRANSMUTATION

REVERSIBILITY REGARDING GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF

RADWASTE MANAGEMENT

ICEM2011-59077 39

New Nuclear Programmes Must Not Neglect Waste ManagementCharles McCombie

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D&D MANAGEMENT APPROACHES AND PLANNING TOOLS

ICEM2011-59014 45

How an Integrated Change Programme Has Accelerated the Reduction in High Hazard

Nuclear Facilities at Sellafield

Angela Mackintosh

ICEM2011-59037 51

Development of Computer Program for Estimating Decommissioning Cost

Hak-Soo Kim and Jong-KU Park

ICEM2011-59254 59

Use of Source Term and Air Dispersion Modeling in Planning Demolition of Highly

Alpha-Contaminated BuildingsJames G. Droppo, Bruce A Napier, Jeremy P. Rishel, and Richard W. Bloom

ICEM2011-59271 67

Magnox Swarf Storage Silo Liquor Effluent Management: Sellafield Site, Cumbria, UK

Stephen Le Clere

ICEM2011-59313 77

Implementation of the International Structure for Decommissioning Costing: Examples and

Related IAEA ProjectsVladimir Daniska, Michele Laraia, and Patrick O'Sullivan

ICEM2011-59354 89

Experience of Application of New Remote Controlled Instruments for Scanning of

Distribution of Radioactive Contamination in Rooms With High Dose Rate

V. E. Stepanov, A. S. Danilovich, 0. P. Ivanov, V. N. Potapov, S. V. Smirnov, and

A. G. Volkovich

D&D OF NON-REACTOR NUCLEAR FACILITIES

ICEWI2011-59027 95

Decommissioning the Belgonucleaire Dessel Mox Plant: Presentation of the Project and

Situation on 30/06/2011

J. M. Cuchet, H. Libon, C. Verheyen, J. Bily, J. Custers, and R. Walthery

ICEM2011-59036 105

Systematic Chemical Decontamination Using IF7 GasHaruhi Hata, Kaoru Yokoyama, and Noritake Sugitsue

ICEM2011-59060 111

Uranium Workshops Dismantling and Criticality Control

Pierre Lisbonne and Julie Rosello

IC EM2011-59097 119

Decommissioning & Demolition of Facilities Used for the Storage & Stabilisation of

Water Reactor SludgeN. Brown, R. M. Cornell, and A. Staples

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ICEM2011-59133 129

The Complex Challenge of Repairing the Gantry Steelwork on the First Generation

Magnox Storage Pond at Sellafield: Legacy Waste Storage, First Generation Magnox

Storage Pond

Ian E. Richardson

ICEM2011-59207 141

Decommissioning of the Radio Chemical Hot Laboratory of the European Commission

Joint Research Centre of IspraDaniele Ugolini, Francesco Rossi, and Francesco Basile

D&D OF POWER REACTORS AND RESEARCH REACTORS

ICEM2011-59013 151

Feedback From Westinghouse Experience on Segmentation of Reactor Vessel Internals

Paul J. Kreitman, Joseph Boucau, Per Segerud, and Stefan Fallstrom

ICEM2011-59189 157

Full System Decontamination (FSD) Prior to Decommissioning

Christoph Stiepani

ICEM2011-59197 165

DfD: An Approach to New Reactor DesignsJas S. Devgun

ICEM2011-59261 175

The Removal, Transportation and Final Treatment and Conditioning of the Thetis Research

Reactor Spent Fuel of the University of Ghent (Belgium) Achieved in 2010

Hubert Thierens, Myriam Monsieurs, Vincent De pooter, Luc Noynaert, Patrick Maris,

Luc Ooms, Patrick Lewandowski, Marnix Braeckeveldt, and Karel Strijckmans

ICEM2011-59321 183

The Decommissioning of the CIEMAT Nuclear Research Center

Sergio Vidaechea and Manuel Ondaro

ICEM2011-59322 191

Update on Jose Cabrera NPP DecommissioningNieves Martin and Manuel Rodriguez

ICEM2011-59366 199

Decommissioning and Dismantling of the French Brennilis NPP

Thierry Andre and Werner Botzem

D&D RADIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING

ICEM2011-59024 203

Quantifying Tc-99 Contamination in a Fuel Fabrication Plant

Carol Darbyshire and Pete Burgess

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ICEM2011-59038 207

The Science, Assaying and Waste Sentencing of Activated Bioshields

Ian Adsley

ICEM2011-59117 213

Discrimination Monitors for Various Kinds of Waste to Be Down Graded

Susumu Naito, Shuji Yamamoto, Mikio Izumi, Masamichi Obata, Yukio Yoshimura,

Jiro Sakurai, and Hitoshi Sakai

ICEM2011-59123 221

Gamma-Ray Imaging for Generating 3D Dose Rate MapsKarl Hughes and Edmund Cracknell

ICEM2011-59266 227

A Practical Approach to Proving Waste Metals Suitable for Consignment as RadiologicallyExempt Materials

lain Carvel, Richard D. Gunn, Christopher H. Orr, and Robin Strange

ICEM2011-59278 233

Development of a Computer System for Support and Documentation of Clearance of

Buildings of Nuclear Installations

Christoph Winkler, Stefan Worlen, Stefan Thierfeldt, and Frank Schartmann

ICEM2011-59344 239

Geostatistical Methodology for Waste Optimization of Contaminated Premises

Yvon Desnoyers and Didier Dubot

ICEM2011-59349 245

Sampling vs Taking SomeD, Francois-Bongarcon

D&D TECHNOLOGIES

[CEM2011-59029 249

An Innovative Process for Segmenting of Guide Tubes

Patrick Gobert, Pierre-Henri Ponchon, Stefan Fallstrom, and Joseph Boucau

ICEM2011-59039 253

Assay of Plutonium Contaminated Waste by Gamma SpectrometryIan Adsley, Michael Green, Ian Pearman, and Michael Davies

1CEM2011-59053 259

Dismantling/Remediation of a Highly Contaminated Sump in Running Plant Conditions

Jos Boussu, Koen Lenie, and Reginald Coomans

ICEM2011-59136 267

Transport of Nuclear Waste Flows: A Modelling and Simulation ApproachJonathan F. W. Adams, Simon R. Biggs, Michael Fairweather, Jun Yao, andJames Young

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ICEM2011-59149 277

Reuse of Conditional Released Materials From Decommissioning:A Review of Approaches and Scenarios With Long-Term Constructions

Vladimir Daniska, Jozef Pritrsky, Frantisek Ondra, Matej Zachar, and Vladimir Necas

ICEM2011-59166 287

New Degreasing Formulations for the Decontamination of Solid Substrates, Consistent

With Concentration and Vitrification Process of the Final Wastes

Jeremy Causse, Cyril Roussignol, Jean-Frangois Valery, and Jean-Charles Hamel

ICEM2011-59167 291

Characterization of Iraq's Remote Nuclear Facilities for Decommissioning and

Waste ManagementFouad Al-Musawi, Adnan Jarjies, and Ross A. Miller

ICEM2011-59206 297

Remote Decommissioning of Blind Cells: APM 214 Facility CEA Marcoule

Olivier Calixte and Thomas Gamier

ICEM2011-59225 301

Decommissioning of the A-1 NPP Heavy Water Evaporator FacilityJan Medved and Ladislav Vargovcik

ICEM2011-59248 309

Dealing With a Pa-231 Contaminated Ventilation Duct

Clare Irving, Pete Burgess, and Keith Stevens

ICEM2011-59249 315

The Use of Standard Alpha and Beta Surface Scintillation Contamination Monitors to

Confirm the Contamination Fingerprint and to Check on Source QualityPete Burgess

ICEM2011-59250 321

Measurement of Plutonium Contamination Through Paint Using a Fidler Probe

Robert Clark, Pete Burgess, and Ian Croudace

ICEM2011-59280 327

Clearance of Buildings of NPP WCirgassen (Germany) Using an Innovative

Clearance ConceptStefan Worlen, Marco Steinbusch, Alexander Kummer, Stefan Thierfeldt, and

Frank Schartmann

DISPOSAL SITE AND WASTE FORM CHARACTERIZATION AND

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

ICEM2011-59093 335

Mineralogical Analyses of Old (78 and 98 Years) Concrete

Tomoko Ishii, Hitoshi Owada, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Masahito Shibata, and Kumi Negishi

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ICEM2011-59096 343

Modeling of Alteration Behavior on Blended Cementitious Materials

Hitoshi Owada, Tomoko Ishii, Mayumi Takazawa, Hiroyasu Kato, Hiroyuki Sakamoto,

and Masahito Shibata

ICEM2011-59098 351

Characterization and Assessment of the Groundwater Pathway for the Low Level

Waste Repository, UK

Lee J. Hartley, Martin James, Peter Jackson, Matt Couch, and John Shevelan

ICEM2011-59146 361

Characterisation of the Geology of the UK Low Level Waste RepositoryJohn Shevelan and Nicholas T. Smith

ICEM2011-59297 371

Evolution of Sorption Properties in Large-Scale Concrete Structures Accounting for

Long-Term Physical-Chemical Concrete Degradation

Janez Perko, Diederik Jacques, Dirk Mallants, and Suresh Seetharam

ECONOMIC ANALYSES, MONITORING STRATEGIES AND

PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

ICEM2011-59253 379

Delivering Value for Money: Trust and Verify?Alastair Laird

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION POSTERS

ICEM2011-59042 389

Set Up of an Environmental Monitoring System, Shchuchye, Russia Technical Assistance

Stephane Belbeze and Matthieu Hallouin

ICEM2011-59045 395

Optimisation (Sampling Strategies and Analytical Procedures) for Site Specific Environment

Monitoring at the Areas of Uranium Production Legacy Sites in Ukraine

Oleg V. Voitsekhovych, Tatiana V. Lavrova, and Alexander B. Kostezh

ICEM2011-59183 403

Post-Iodine Production NORM Repository Technical Design and Reconstruction

Experience in Turkmenistan

A. B. Gelbutovsky, P. I. Cheremisin, A. V. Troshev, A. J. Egorov, and M. M. Boriskin

ER SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING

ICEM2011-59019 409

Foam: Novel Delivery Technology for Remediation of Vadose Zone Environments

Danielle Jansik, Dawn M. Wellman, Shas V. Mattigod, Lirong Zhong, Yuxin Wu,

Martin Foote, Fred Zhang, and Susan Hubbard

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ICEM2011-59046 417

Soils Radiological Characterization Under a Nuclear FacilityEmilie Aubonnet and Didier Dubot

ICEM2011-59057 425

Radiological Evaluation of Contaminated Sites and Soils: VEgAS — An Expertise and

Investigation Vehicle

Julien Attiogbe, Patrick De Moura, and Marie Lavielle

ICEM2011-59062 429

Characterization of a Deep Radiological Contamination: Integration of Geostatistical

Processing and Historical Data

Yvon Desnoyers and Patrick de Moura

ICEM2011-59076 435

High-Density Gamma Radiation Spectrometry Surveys of Contaminated Land

Mike Davies, Robert Clark, and Ian Adsley

ICEM2011-59110 443Remediation and Assessment of the National Radioactive Waste Storage and

Disposal Site in TajikistanNazirzhon T. Buriev, Dzhamshed A. Abdushukurov, and Tjalle T. Vandergraaf

ICEM2011-59131 451

Integrating History and Measurement Into a Case for Site Release

Angela Bartlett, Mike Davies, Peter Burgess, and Gavin Coppins

ICEM2011-59177 461Determination of the Radionuclide Contamination on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan

Tjalle T. Vandergraaf, Gudrat G. Mamedov, Mahammadali A, Ramazanov,Jalal A. Naghiyev, AfatA. Mehdiyeva, and Nazim A. Huseynov

ICEM2011-59181 471

Industrial Experience Feedback of a Geostatistical Estimation of ContaminatedSoil Volumes

Claire Faucheux and Nicolas Jeannee

ICEM2011-59209 479

Sampling and Decommissioning: CETAMA Seminar and International Overview

Guy Granier, Daniele Roudil, and Didier Dubot

EXPERIENCES IN ER CLEAN-UP METHODS AND ACTIONSICEM2011-59030 483Groundwater Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium Along the Columbia River at theHanford Site in Washington State, USA

Dyan L Foss and Briant L. Charboneau

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ICEM2011-59134 493

Decommissioning of the Active Storage Facility for Residuals in Rheinsberg

(Brandenburg/Germany) and Results of Groundwater Monitoring

Mathias Steinhoff

ICEM2011-59270 499

Environmental Remediation of an ALSTOM Grid Industrial Site (France)

Stephanie Romero

ICEM2011-59292 503

Design and Installation of a Permeable Treatment Wall to Passively Remove

Strontium-90 From Groundwater at a Former Commercial Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

Facility in New York

Douglas Bablitch, Rupeet Malhotra, Rick Frappa, and Scott Warner

FACILITY DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING

ICEM2011-59055 513

Optimization of Radioactive Waste Cementation for Decommissioning of SalaspilsResearch Reactor

A. Abramenkovs and J. Malnacs

ICEM2011-59058 519

Conditional Release of Steel From Decommissioning in a Form of Reinforced Concrete

Jozef Pritrsky, Miroslav Brodnan, and Vladimir Necas

ICEM2011-59070 525

Development of Nuclear Facilities Piping Cleaning System Using Microbubble

Jongseon Jeon, Sangchul Lee, Haksoo Kim, Byoungsub Han, and Wisoo Kim

ICEM2011-59082 531

A Matrix-Inversion Method for Gamma-Source Mapping From Gamma-Count Data

Richard K. Bull, Ian Adsley, and Claire Burgess

ICEM2011-59130 539

Reuse of Conditionally Released Steel: Proposals and Evaluation of Processes for

Manufacturing of Steel Elements and Processes for Construction of Selected Scenarios

Peter Bezak, Frantisek Ondra, Eva Hajkova, Vladimir Daniska, and Vladimir Necas

ICEM2011-59132 549

Influence of the Conditional Release of the Materials With Very Low Level of Radioactivityon the Environment

Slavka Prvakova, Adela Mrskova, and Jozef Pritrsky

1CEM2011-59138 555

Methodology of External Exposure Calculation for Reuse of Conditional Released Materials

From DecommissioningFrantisek Ondra, Marek Vasko, and Vladimir Necas

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ICEM2011-59244 563

Uncertainty Analysis of Activity Measurement of New Monitoring System for Free-Releasefor NPP A-1 Decommissioning, Slovakia

Alojz Slaninka, Ondrej Slavik, and Vladimir Necas

ICEM2011-59282 571

Use of Highly Pressurized Liquid Nitrogen Technology for Concrete Scabbling Applicationat SICN Nuclear Facility

Fabrice Moggia, Claire-Emilie Vaudey, Thierry Varet, Valerie Toulemonde,Frederic Richard, Gary Anderson, and Frederique Damerval

ICEM2011-59343 577

Laser Removal of Contaminants on the Metal Surface

Hui-Jun Won, Sun-Hee Jung, Chong-Hun Jung, Byung-Seon Choi, Kune-Woo Lee, and

Jei-Kwon Moon

ICEM2011-59358 583

The Assessment of the Waste Management Plan to Decommissioning of Cernavoda

NPP for Environmental Impact Reduction

Gheorghe Barariu

ICEM2011-59376 595

Application of the Data Quality Objective Process to the Partial De-Licensing at OldburyNuclear Power Station

Denis Buckley

ICEM2011-59396 605New Generation of Diamond Toolings for Facilitating Decommissioning Operations

Claude Besson, Erico Mariotti, Alexandre Mouysset, Lorenz zur Nedden, and

Bernard Delannay

ICEM2011-59398 611

Technical Justification and Choice for Remediation Methods

Mark Morton and Janaka Jayamaha

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

ICEM2011-59099 625UK Contributions to the Decommissioning of the BN-350 Reactor in Kazakhstan: 2002-2011

Steven Laws, David Wells, and Andrew Herrick

ICEM2011-59185 635

Environmental and Radiological Remediation Under Canada's Global PartnershipProgram 2004-11

Michael J. Washer

ICEM2011-59375 645

Methodological and Practical Bases of Providing Information Support to Activities on

Environmental Remediation of the Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste TemporaryStorage Facility in Gremikha

D. B. Stepennov, A. P. Varnavin, A. A. Zakharchev, and L. Pillette-Cousin

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ICEM2011-59386 655

Dismantling of Civilian Nuclear Powered Fleet Technical Support Vessels:

Engineering Solutions

Konstantin N. Kulikov, RinatA. Nizamutdinov, and Andrey N. Abramov

ICEM2011-59399 663

Progress in International Cooperation on Regulation of Legacy Management:

Experience and New Developments in Norwegian Cooperation ProgrammesMalgorzata Karpov Sneve

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS AND NATIONAL INITIATIVES IN

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

ICEM2011-59065 671

Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM)Paul Dixon, Mark Williamson, Mark Freshley, David Moulton, Ian Gorton,

Elizabeth Keating, Yvette Collazo, Kurt Gerdes, and Juan Meza

ICEM2011-59361 679

The Global Threat Reduction Initiative's Radiological Security Cooperation With Russia

Tiffany A. Blanchard, William J. Abramson, James W. (J. R.) Russell, and

Catherine K. Roberts

ICEM2011-59392 687

Kola Peninsula Radwaste Management in the Framework of the Italian-Russian

Cooperation Agreement for Global PartnershipMassimiliano Nobile, Dmitry Izmailov, Antonino Spadoni, and Oleg Uryvskiy

HLW, FISSILE, TRU AND SPENT FUEL SHORT AND LONG-TERMSTORAGE ISSUES

ICEM2011-59032 699Advanced Surveillance Technologies for Used Fuel Long-Term Storage and Transportation

Hanchung Tsai, Yung Y. Liu, Mark Nutt, and James Shuler

ICEM2011-59048 707West Valley Demonstration Project High Level, Transuranic, and Greater ThanClass C Wastes

James A. Blankenhorn

ICEM2011-59067 715

Managing Aging Effects on Used Fuel Dry Cask for Very Long-Term StorageOmesh Chopra, Dwight Diercks, David Ma, Vikram Shah, Shiu-Wing Tarn, Ralph Fabian,

Yung Liu, and Mark Nutt

ICEM2011-59174 723Generic Design Assessment of Long-Term Spent Fuel Storage for New Reactors in the UK

D. Watson, I. Streatfield, C. Grundy, S. Price-Water, D. Glazbrook, and C. Fisher

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ICEM2011-59237 731

Industrial Complementarities Between Interim Storage and Reversible Geological

RepositoryJean-Michel Hoorelbeke

ICEM2011-59246 737

Application of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in

Hydrothermal Systems to Processes Near a High-Leve! Nuclear Waste Repository

Geoffrey J. Peter

L/ILW TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND

IMPLEMENTATION

ICEM2011-59004 747

Preliminary Demonstration of GeoMelt Treatment of Hanford's K-Basin SludgeKeith Witwer

ICEM2011-59018 753

Waste Loading Enhancements for Hanford Low-Activity Waste Glasses

Albert A. Kruger

ICEM2011-59084 755

THOR® Steam Reforming Technology for the Treatment of Complex and

Problematic Wastes

J. Brad Mason and Adam L. Foster

ICEM2011-59103 765

A Room Temperature Stabilization and Waste Volume Reduction Method Tested on

Belgian Intermediate-Level Homogeneous Bituminized Waste (Eurobitum)Nathalie R. E. N. Impens, Lesley Adriaensen, Jan Deckers, and Pierre Van Iseghem

ICEM2011-59233 777

Standardizing of LLW/ILW Treatment for Russian Type Pressure Water Reactors

Klaus Buttner and Rainer Slametschka

ICEM2011-59264 783

35 Years of Incineration in Studsvik: Lessons Learned and Recent Modifications and

ImprovementsMaria Lindberg, Joakim Lovstrand, and Karin von Kronhelm

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