Fabrication, characterization, and evaluation of a fully radioactive glass using commercial nuclear waste from the West Valley Demonstration Project
There were two objectives in performing this work. The first was to fabricate a glass containing high-level waste produced at West Valley Nuclear Services (WVNS) during reprocessing of spent commercial nuclear fuel. The second was to compare composition and behavior of the glass with West Valley's reference high-level waste glass, Approved Test Material-10 (ATM-10). A single melt of fully radioactive West Valley glass, batched and processed as similarly as possible to ATM-10, was produced by the Materials Characterization Center (MCC) at Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). The resulting glass, West Valley Sludge Glass-1 (WVSG-1), was chemically analyzed and submitted to a limited number of leach tests. 2 refs., 7 figs., 2 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 5611883
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-18934; CONF-9104261-2; ON: DE91013710
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international symposium on ceramics in nuclear and hazardous waste management, Cincinnati, OH (USA), 29 Apr - 3 May 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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