Long-term high-level defense waste technology progress report, April-June 1983
This report summarizes the work accomplished on the Long-Term High-Level Defense Waste (HL) end function during the third quarter of fiscal year 1983. Rockwell is providing technical guidance for waste tank and cesium capsule corrosion tests being performed at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) and pass-through funded concrete grout alpha radiolysis studies and support of the Transportable Grout Facility (TGF) Demonstration Project by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The residual liquid solidification of in-tank wastes studies and the alternative waste fixation assessment studies were terminated at the end of the second quarter, and the emphasis was redirected to the TGF project. A support task also being funded at Rockwell under this program is to provide liaison to PNL and ORNL on waste immobilization studies in support of the TGF. The waste tank and cesium capsule corrosion testing efforts at PNL have focused on data collection and evaluation. Time dependence of the corrosion rates appears to be following the rate-reduction-with-time expectation. Dilute waste tank solutions show higher corrosion rates than more concentrated solutions. All work is on schedule, and no problems are foreseen in completing the tests. The lead site funded Waste Management Development Support Building (Project B-409) was completed. 6 tables.
- Research Organization:
- Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-77RL01030
- OSTI ID:
- 5656946
- Report Number(s):
- RHO-WM-SR-83-1-3Q-P; ON: DE84004564
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
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STAINLESS STEEL-316L
CORROSION
CESIUM 137
CESIUM CHLORIDES
CONCRETES
CURIUM 244
GROUTING
RADIOLYSIS
SLUDGES
SOLIDIFICATION
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
TIME DEPENDENCE
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES
ALLOYS
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BUILDING MATERIALS
CESIUM COMPOUNDS
CESIUM ISOTOPES
CHEMICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
CHROMIUM ALLOYS
CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS
CURIUM ISOTOPES
DECOMPOSITION
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HEAVY NUCLEI
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
ISOTOPES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PROCESSING
RADIATION CHEMISTRY
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOISOTOPES
STAINLESS STEELS
STEELS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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