ML20104A094
| ML20104A094 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project |
| Issue date: | 01/18/1979 |
| From: | Oertel G ENERGY, DEPT. OF |
| To: | Michael Brown AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7902260071 | |
| Download: ML20104A094 (3) | |
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Thank you for your letter of January 4,1979, regarding a possible method for correcting the defect in the high-level vaste tank BD2 pan which was redently detected at the Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. site in West Valley.
By copy of this letter I as forwardiiig your letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission for their cons.ideration, since assuring the safety of the tanks falls within their area of responsibility.
4 The Department of Energy study group',is very pleased that you found the December 16, 1978, Public Informational Conference at West Valley to be enjoyable and informative.
Thank you for your' interest and villingness to help in finding solutions to the various aspects of the Western p
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Dear Mr. Raues:
Remembering what you said 'about the leak in th's " saucer", I g recd the companion Report.
On page 3-28, paragraph 3 3 2.1 F it says "Each tank rests on a 30-ca~1ayer of perlite blocks, chich in turn is supported by a 7 6-cm layerof pea gravel ecntained in a carbon steel pan.
The pan rests on'a second 7 6-en layer' of pea gravel on the vault' floor.
......Under the concrete vault is a 1.2-m layer of pea gravel that is kopt saturated with wa*ter,.....",
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You also said the location,. size and shape of the. hole 'were -
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To those unknowns, for me I must add temperature cod pressure.
I as assuming that the temperature must be extremely high.
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7f there's anyiwayito correct the leak I would like to h'elp if I can.
I have an idea;- it's an outcome of looking at TV commercials for unplugging stopped drains that show a clog e
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That, it seems to me, in reverse, is chat is needed.
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To that add very high temperature, and here's how I thought a clog might be create 4s using a heavy (gravity) i viccoue liquid (like the grease) am( adding to it ' particles (1}ke the hsir), I wonder if 5 mixture of mercury and un-unif orr.ly crushed industrial diamonds might flow to.the cJy..j
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