COMPILATION AND ANALYSIS OF WASTE DISPOSAL INFORMATION
A summary of waste processing treatment and disposal information as extracted from many documents on the various aspects of the general problem is measured. The material in this report is intended to serve as background for a program proposal at ORNL covering waste processing for fission product recovery waste treatment and handling, and ultimate disposal of high-level, intermediate- level, and low-level radioactive wastes. In addition to an introduction to the complex of problems in waste treatment and handling, a summary of various ultimate disposal schemes, and related studies, the report catalogs information papers on phases of: waste solution characteristics; economics; predictions of activiiy and volume buildup in a nuclear power economy; potential health hazards of fission and transmutation products; waste storage, decay, and shipment prior to ultimate disposal; fission product recovery processes and utilization; treatment and disposal of intermediate and low-level wastes; reviews of engineering studies of problems at existing processing plant waste disposal sites; disposal of wastes in tanks; disposal of wastes in deep wells; disposal of wastes in salt-domes, underground formations, and the ocean; self-sintering at elevated temperatures a method of ultimate disposal; and a master reference list of pertinent documents. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- NSA Number:
- NSA-12-012343
- OSTI ID:
- 4336095
- Report Number(s):
- CF-57=2-20(Del.)
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Decl. with deletions Mar. 13, 1957. Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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