Technology for the long-term management of defense HLW at the ICPP
The Defense Waste Management Plan of June 1983, includes a reference plan for the long-term management of Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) high-level waste (HLW), with a goal of disposing of the annual output in 500 canisters a year by FY-2008. Based on the current vitrification technology, the ICPP base-glass case would produce 1700 canisters per year after FY-2007. Thus to meet the DWMP goal, processing steps including fuel dissolution, waste treatment and waste immobilization are being studied as areas where potential modifications could result in HLW volume reductions for repository disposal. It has been demonstrated that ICPP calcined wastes can be densified by hot isostatic pressing (HIPing) to multiphase ceramic forms of high loading and density. Conversion of waste by HIPing to these forms has the potential of reducing the annual ICPP waste production to volumes near those of the goal of the DWMP. This report summarizes the laboratory-scale information currently available on the development of these forms.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Idaho Nuclear Co., Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-84ID12435
- OSTI ID:
- 5512877
- Report Number(s):
- WINCO-1038; ON: DE86013381
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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