DWPFASTXL

DWPFASTXL
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Software & Copyright Submittal The tool used to analyze the progression of accidents in the DWPF is called an Accident Progression Event Tree (APET). The APET methodology groups analyzed progressions into a series of bins, based on similarities in their characteristics. DWPFASTXL is an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to calculate radiological source terms and consequences for these accident progression bins. This document presents the calculations used in version 2.0 of the DWPFASTXL spreadsheet. This revision of DWPFASTXL has been written to complete the debugging of version 1.0, and to reconfigure the spreadsheet to model the new bin attribute table developed for the latest revision of the DWPF safety analyses.

Product/Process (P/P) Models For The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF)

Product/Process (P/P) Models For The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF)
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Radioactive high level waste (HLW) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has successfully been vitrified into borosilicate glass in the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) since 1996. Vitrification requires stringent product/process (P/P) constraints since the glass cannot be reworked once it is poured into ten foot tall by two foot diameter canisters. A unique "feed forward" statistical process control (SPC) was developed for this control rather than statistical quality control (SQC). In SPC, the feed composition to the DWPF melter is controlled prior to vitrification. In SQC, the glass product would be sampled after it is vitrified. Individual glass property-composition models form the basis for the "feed forward" SPC. The models transform constraints on the melt and glass properties into constraints on the feed composition going to the melter in order to guarantee, at the 95% confidence level, that the feed will be processable and that the durability of the resulting waste form will be acceptable to a geologic repository.

Application of Accident Progression Event Tree Technology to the Savannah River Site Defense Waste Processing Facility SAR Analysis

Application of Accident Progression Event Tree Technology to the Savannah River Site Defense Waste Processing Facility SAR Analysis
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Release: 1993
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The Accident Analysis in the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) has recently undergone an upgrade. Non-reactor SARs at SRS (and other Department of Energy (DOE) sites) use probabilistic techniques to assess the frequency of accidents at their facilities. This paper describes the application of an extension of the Accident Progression Event Tree (APET) approach to accidents at the SRS DWPF. The APET technique allows an integrated model of the facility risk to be developed, where previous probabilistic accident analyses have been limited to the quantification of the frequency and consequences of individual accident scenarios treated independently. Use of an APET allows a more structured approach, incorporating both the treatment of initiators that are common to more than one accident, and of accident progression at the facility.