Demonstration of ground freezing for radioactive/hazardous-waste disposal

Conference · Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:400690

Peters, R ^[1]

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1. Scientific Ecology Group, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The US Department of Energy`s Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, through the Office of Technology Development, is performing a subsurface ground-freezing demonstration at Scientific Ecology Group facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The primary goal of the demonstration is to display a technology that can be easily installed to form an impermeable barrier. This method can be used at sites of radioactive and other hazardous contaminants to prevent migration of contaminants. This technology uses, as an underground barrier, a zone of frozen soil that can be removed at a later date, after the contamination problem is remediated.

• OSTI ID: 400690
• Report Number(s): CONF-941124-; ISBN 0-935470-85-9; TRN: 96:030218
• Resource Relation: Conference: 33. Hanford symposium on health and the environment: symposium on in-situ remediation--scientific basis for current and future technologies, Richland, WA (United States), 7-11 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of In-situ remediation: Scientific basis for current and future technologies. Part 1; Gee, G.W. [ed.] [Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)]; Wing, N.R. [ed.] [Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)]; PB: 704 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
SOILS
FREEZING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS