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Nuclear waste vitrification efficiency: cold cap Pavel Hrma Albert A. Kruger Richard Pokorný 1

Hanford site 2 Manhattan project Washington, USA B – reactor 1. nuclear reactor Plutonium production (World War II.) Peak production reached during cold war 9 running nuclear reactors The legacy of Pu production: Nuclear waste Today – clean up process

Nuclear waste underground tanks m 3 of nuclear waste

Waste treatment plant (Vitrification plant) Vitrification Immobilization of the waste in the form of glass Waste + Glass forming additives --> heated to 1150 C The melt then poured to stainless steel canisters to cool and solidify In this form, the waste is stable and safer for the environment Current state (February 2011) 4

Glass melting Waste glass melter – a schematic image 5 Slurry feed Electrodes Molten glass Cold cap Bubbler

Mathematical modeling of cold cap 6 Final goal – implementation of the cold cap mathematical model to the glass melter model Mathematical models of melters are commonly used for the simulation of melter behavior under different conditions Slurry feed Molten glass Cold cap

Mathematical modeling of cold cap 7 The feed is charged into the melter in the form of slurry containing 50 to 60 mass% of water. Water is boiling and evaporating on the top of the cold cap. The cold cap of nearly uniform thickness is spreading over the pool of molten glass. Only enough feed is being charged to maintain a cold cap that covers ~90% of the surface. Should not cover more than 95% from technological reasons Slurry feed Molten glass Cold cap

Mathematical modeling of cold cap 8 As the feed materials move down through the cold cap, their temperature increases from 100˚C to the temperature of molten glass ( 1100˚C). The batch reactions include water evaporation, release of bonded water (crystalline water, water from hydroxides, oxyhydrates, and boric acid), melting of oxyionic salts and borates, reaction of nitrates with organics, molten salt migration, reactions of melts with amorphous oxides and hydroxides, reaction of molten salts with solid silica, formation of intermediate crystalline phases (e.g., spinel), formation of a continuous glass-forming melt, volatilization, expansion and collapse of foam, dissolution of residual solids (mainly silica).

Cold cap structure 9 x is the vertical coordinate h is the cold cap thickness Simplifications: 1D representation 2 phases o condensed phase o gas phase

Mathematical modeling of cold cap 10 The development of the algorithm to calculate the 1D temperature field in the cold cap: Mass balance + Energy balance Constitutive equations for material properties Boundary conditions Finite difference method was chosen for its simplicity and comprehensibility

Mass balance Neglecting the diffusion, the mass balances of the condensed phase and the gas phase are By the mass conservation law, the total mass balance is ρ is the spatial density v is the velocity r is the mass change rate (via chemical reactions) subscripts c and g denote the condensed phase and the gas phase, respectively 11

Energy balance In a steady state, the energy balance equations are By the Fouriers law, the conductive heat fluxes are: c is the heat capacity q is the conductive heat fluxes H is the heat source/ sink due to chemical reactions s is the heat transfer between gas phase and condensed phase subscripts c and g denote the condensed phase and the gas phase, respectively 12

Boundary temperatures and fluxes 13 Q U and Q B are the heat fluxes T U and T B are the boundary temperatures

Material properties A typical HLW melter feed has been chosen Its properties, such as heat capacity, were measured or estimated based on the literature 14

Results preview 15 Q U is the heat flux delivered to the cold cap from above Q S is the heat flux to convert the slurry to 100˚C (~60% of total heat flux for melting) Effect of upper heating on the cold cap thickness The cold-cap thickness decreases as the total heat flux delivered to it increases The more heat is delivered from above, the thicker the cold cap becomes Total heat flux to cold cap in kW m -2

Foam layer 16 Picture of bubble layer structure under cold cap X-ray tomography image of foam after melting Picture of bubble layer structure under cold cap X-ray tomography image of foam after melting Expansion experiments show presence of foaming

Foam layer models 17 Structure of foam layer Understanding of foam is essential for the cold cap modeling

Conclusions 18 The preliminary 1D model of the cold cap has been developed The thickness of the cold cap decreases as the feat flux to the cold cap increases and increases as the fractional heat flux from above increases Empirical data indicate that foaming has a strong impact on the melting rate Further experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of foaming is underway