Defense waste processing facility precipitate hydrolysis process
Abstract
Sodium tetraphenylborate and sodium titanate are used to assist in the concentration of soluble radionuclide in the Savannah River Plant's high-level waste. In the Defense Waste Processing Facility, concentrated tetraphenylborate/sodium titanate slurry containing cesium-137, strontium-90 and traces of plutonium from the waste tank farm is hydrolyzed in the Salt Processing Cell forming organic and aqueous phases. The two phases are then separated and the organic phase is decontaminated for incineration outside the DWPF building. The aqueous phase, containing the radionuclides and less than 10% of the original organic, is blended with the insoluble radionuclides in the high-level waste sludge and is fed to the glass melter for vitrification into borosilicate glass. During the Savannah River Laboratory's development of this process, copper (II) was found to act as a catalyst during the hydrolysis reactions, which improved the organic removal and simplified the design of the reactor.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5429795
- Report Number(s):
- DP-MS-85-132; CONF-860317-55
ON: DE86015677
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste management '86, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2 Mar 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; CESIUM 137; HYDROLYSIS; ORGANIC BORON COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM; PRECIPITATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STRONTIUM 90; TITANATES; VITRIFICATION; ACTINIDES; ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; ELEMENTS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LYSIS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLVOLYSIS; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing
Citation Formats
Doherty, J P, Eibling, R E, and Marek, J C. Defense waste processing facility precipitate hydrolysis process. United States: N. p., 1986.
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Doherty, J P, Eibling, R E, & Marek, J C. Defense waste processing facility precipitate hydrolysis process. United States.
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title = {Defense waste processing facility precipitate hydrolysis process},
author = {Doherty, J P and Eibling, R E and Marek, J C},
abstractNote = {Sodium tetraphenylborate and sodium titanate are used to assist in the concentration of soluble radionuclide in the Savannah River Plant's high-level waste. In the Defense Waste Processing Facility, concentrated tetraphenylborate/sodium titanate slurry containing cesium-137, strontium-90 and traces of plutonium from the waste tank farm is hydrolyzed in the Salt Processing Cell forming organic and aqueous phases. The two phases are then separated and the organic phase is decontaminated for incineration outside the DWPF building. The aqueous phase, containing the radionuclides and less than 10% of the original organic, is blended with the insoluble radionuclides in the high-level waste sludge and is fed to the glass melter for vitrification into borosilicate glass. During the Savannah River Laboratory's development of this process, copper (II) was found to act as a catalyst during the hydrolysis reactions, which improved the organic removal and simplified the design of the reactor.},
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