Defense waste processing facility: an innovative process for high-level waste immobilization. [Abstract only]

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5188616

Cowan, S P

The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), under construction at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Plant (SRP), will process defense high-level radioactive waste so that it can be disposed of safely. The DWPF will immobilize the high-activity fraction of the waste in borosilicate glass cast in stainless steel canisters which can be handled, stored, transported and disposed of in a geologic repository. The low-activity fraction of the waste, which represents about 90% of the high-level waste HLW volume, will be decontaminated and disposed of on the SRP site.

• Research Organization: USDOE Savannah River Operations Office, Aiken, SC
• OSTI ID: 5188616
• Report Number(s): DOE/SR-2001; CONF-850765-40; ON: DE85018512
• Resource Relation: Conference: 26. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 21 Jul 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
BOROSILICATE GLASS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
SOLIDIFICATION
VITRIFICATION
GLASS
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTES
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