Plutonium Immobilization Project comparison of bagless transfer and electrolytic decon

摘要

This report documents a study requested for PIP to compare the baseline bagless transfer process with the electrolytic decontamination process, and recommend the process for the PIP application. Two different methods of packaging pucks in cans for the Plutonium Immobilization Project (PIP) were compared; the SRS bagless transfer and electrolytic decontamination. The SRS bagless transfer generates more waste, but it is simpler, less systems would be required, it requires much less glovebox space, much less building space and the installed cost would be considerably less. Therefore, the SRS bagless transfer is recommended for the PIP.