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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project is committed to meeting all technical and regulatory requirements to safely retrieve, characterize, treat and package transuranic waste for shipment out of Idaho to permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in
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Treatment Facility
Characterized waste containers that need further treatment before they can be shipped are sent to the AMWTP Treatment Facility where the waste can be size-reduced, sorted and repackaged. Waste sent to the Treatment Facility is transported to different areas within the facility by an intricate system of conveyers, and all waste handling is done remotely.
The Treatment Facility houses a supercompactor (link) and a shredder for major size-reduction of the waste. The Supercompactor compacts drums, while the shredder reduces wooden boxes and metal drums to sawdust and metal scrapings.
The facility also has two waste treatment boxlines, which contain Brokk floor-mounted manipulators, PaR Overhead Power manipulators and manual master-slave manipulators. In the boxlines, the waste is sorted and size-reduced. Any restricted items--such as liquids or compressed gas cylinders--are removed and the waste is repackaged.
The Brokk floor-mounted manipulators are used for sorting, segregating and size-reducing waste from barrels and boxes after the waste containers are dumped into the sorting tray.
The PaR is the most dexterous piece of robotics in the facility. It is also used to sort, segregate and size-reduce waste. It can also move and sort items without tipping or damaging them.
The master-slave manipulator is a manual piece of equipment that performs many of the same functions as the PaR. Barrels and boxes that need to be emptied more carefully will be sent to the master-slave manipulator.
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