Development of a plutonium-239 recovery incinerator

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5497957

Williams, S; Charlesworth, D L

A Plutonium-239 Recovery Incinerator is being developed for the Savannah River Plant (SRP) to reduce the volume of solid glovebox waste and to allow recovery of Pu-239 from the waste. The process will also allow treatment of some waste materials that are not certifiable for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). It will consist of two electrically heated combustion chambers (furnace and afterburner) and a dry filtration off-gas system. A unique feature of the process is that it uses pyrohydrolysis to produce an ash that is amenable to Pu recovery through nitric acid/HF dissolution. A series of thermogravimetric (TGA) analyses have been performed to characterize potential incinerator feed materials. A functioning furnace mockup was built and operated to demonstrate electrically-heated pyrohydrolysis operation. 8 refs., 4 figs.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5497957
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-87-120; CONF-880201-18; ON: DE88006662; TRN: 88-011039
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste management '88: symposium on radioactive waste management, Tucson, AZ, USA, 26 Feb 1988; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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