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Title: SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER

Abstract

High-level nuclear waste is being vitrified, i.e., converted to a durable glass that can be stored in a safe repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Waste vitrification is accomplished in reactors called melters to which the waste is charged together with glass-forming additives. The mixture is electrically heated to a temperature as high as 1150 decrees C to create a melt that becomes glass on cooling.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Czech Academy of Science (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
(US)
OSTI Identifier:
792249
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/45738
EMSP 65422; TRN: US0300264
DOE Contract Number:  
FG07-98ER45738
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 7 Jan 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ADDITIVES; CERAMIC MELTERS; GLASS; MIXTURES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SPINELS; VITRIFICATION; WASTES; HIGH-LEVEL WASTE; GLASS MELTER; HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE; VITRIFIED; WASTE VITRIFICATION; MELTERS

Citation Formats

Hrma, Pavel, Schill, Pert, and Nemec, Lubomir. SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER. United States: N. p., 2002. Web. doi:10.2172/792249.
Hrma, Pavel, Schill, Pert, & Nemec, Lubomir. SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/792249
Hrma, Pavel, Schill, Pert, and Nemec, Lubomir. 2002. "SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/792249. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/792249.
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title = {SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER},
author = {Hrma, Pavel and Schill, Pert and Nemec, Lubomir},
abstractNote = {High-level nuclear waste is being vitrified, i.e., converted to a durable glass that can be stored in a safe repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Waste vitrification is accomplished in reactors called melters to which the waste is charged together with glass-forming additives. The mixture is electrically heated to a temperature as high as 1150 decrees C to create a melt that becomes glass on cooling.},
doi = {10.2172/792249},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/792249}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2002},
month = {Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2002}
}