Special wasteform lysimeter program at the Savannah River Laboratory

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5762033· OSTI ID:5762033

Oblath, S. B.; Stone, J. A.; Wiley, J. R.

The Special Wasteform Lysimeter project at SRL is designed to measure performance of typical production-line, low-level, solid wasteforms produced at power reactors and emplaced in a himid SLB site. The use of lysimeters permits direct measurement of migration of radioactivity from these wasteforms to provide a technical basis for evaluating how well these forms will perform in an actual burial trench, and additionally allows comparison with unencapsulated defense waste. Cement and polymer wasteforms were place into 10 lysimeters in March 1982. By March, 1983, /sup 60/Co from both types of wasteforms had been detected in te lysimeter sumps. /sup 134/Cs, /sup 137/Cs, and /sup 60/Co were found in porous cup samplers located directly below the wasteforms. Measurements in mid-summer 1983 showed that /sup 60/Co levels were 10 to 100 times greater in lysimeters containing the cement forms than in those containing the polymer. 5 references.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5762033
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-83-87; CONF-8308106-1; ON: DE83017423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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