Defense Waste Processing Facility: a remote process for solidification of Savannah River Plant high level waste

Conference · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5294835

Maher, R; Shafranek, L F; Kelley, J A; Zeyfang, R W; Lethco, A J

The Department of Energy is proposing that a Defense Waste Processing Facility be built at the Savannah River Plant (SRP) to remotely process and immobilize high level radioactive waste produced at the site. Research, development, and design of the facility is being provided by a multidisciplined task force of personnel from the Du Pont Company which designed, built and has operated SRP since 1950. This remotely operated facility will immobilize 28 million gallons of high level waste now stored in tanks, plus the waste to be generated from continued reprocessing operations. Borosilicate glass has been selected as the reference waste form for the immobilization process.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Plant
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5294835
• Report Number(s): DPSPU-81-30-16; CONF-820424-26; ON: DE82017676
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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