Soil washing results for mixed waste pond soils at Hanford

Conference · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5283880

Gerber, M A

Soil washing technology was assessed as a means for remediating soil contaminated with mixed wastes primarily composed of heavy metals and radionuclides. The soils at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site are considered suitable for soil washing because of their relatively low quantities of silt and clay. However, in a limited number of soil washing experiments using soils from different locations in the north pond of the 300 Area, the degree of decontamination achieved for the coarse fraction of the soil varied considerably. Part of this variation appears to be due to the presence of a discrete layer of contaminated sediment found in some of the samples. 7 refs., 2 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 5283880
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-19469; CONF-910981-17; ON: DE92000147; TRN: 91-028316
• Resource Relation: Conference: Environmental remediation '91 conference, Pasco, WA (United States), 8-11 Sep 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
HANFORD RESERVATION
REMEDIAL ACTION
SOILS
WASHING
PONDS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
RADIOISOTOPES
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
CLEANING
ISOTOPES
MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PROCESSING
SURFACE WATERS
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
540250* - Environment
Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)
053000 - Nuclear Fuels- Environmental Aspects