Pre Conceptual Design Report for the K East Basin Sludge & Water System Project A-16 [SEC 1 & 2

Abstract

This report documents qualitative engineering studies and concepts, which will be used to develop the K Basins Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Sludge and Water System (SWS) only in the K East (KE) basin. The bases for this document, and eventually the CDR, are the Functional Design Criteria for the K Basins Sludge and Water System (Precechtel and Mauws 2001) and the Sludge Water System Process Design Basis (Appendix A). The purpose of the KE basin SWS is to provide a system that will transfer the KE basin sludge from in-basin staging or source locations to containment and loadout for subsequent transport to T-Plant for storage. The SWS will provide a system (Phase I) to retrieve and contain the identified as-settled sludge volume in the KE basin (see Section 2.3.1), while maintaining basin water clarity and associated radioactive control limits per KE water treatment (Precechtel and Mauws 2001), to support the Fuel Transfer System (FTS) and Debris Removal System (DRS) as needed. The SWS will also provide a system (Phase II) to retrieve and contain the remaining as-settled sludge volume in the KE basin (see Section 2.3.2), while maintaining basin water clarity and associated radioactive control limits per KEmore » water treatment (Precechtel and Mauws 2001).« less