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Title: Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms

Patent ·
OSTI ID:434164

Disclosed is a method for converting spent nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium into a vitreous ceramic final waste form wherein spent nuclear fuel is bound in a crystalline matrix which is in turn bound within glass.

Research Organization:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Inst., Richland, WA (United States)
Patent Number(s):
US 5,597,516/A/
Application Number:
PAN: 8-514,308
OSTI ID:
434164
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 28 Jan 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English