Open AccessHigh-Level Waste Tanks Multi-Dimensional Contaminant Transport Model Development
Author(s) -
L.B. Collard
Publication year - 1999
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/14886
Subject(s) - plume , contamination , environmental science , residual , waste management , storage tank , environmental engineering , work (physics) , suite , petroleum engineering , engineering , computer science , meteorology , mechanical engineering , history , ecology , physics , archaeology , algorithm , biology
A suite of multi-dimensional computer models was developed to analyze the transport of residual contamination from high-level waste tanks through the subsurface to seeplines. Cases analyzed ranged from all the tanks in the F- and H-tank farms for an overall look; to the Tank 17-20 4-pack to study plume interaction; to individual tanks, such as Tank 17 and 20 for comparison with one-dimensional and modeling. The main purpose of this work was to develop and test the models, so only two relatively conservative contaminants were examined, Tc-99 and I-129. More complex analyses, such as solubility-limited species and radionuclides that head a decay chain were not addressed in this study