Stainless steel RSM beneficial reuse technical feasibility to business reality
- Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
The authors discuss programs to reuse contaminated stainless steel from surplus nuclear facilities. They look at this problem from the aspect of feasibility and economics. A number of different items are presently in fabrication, or in stages of planning for fabrication, from contaminated scrap metals. The economic anaylsis considers the base cost of a product from virgin materials along with the hidden costs of disposal of equivalent contaminated scrap metals and decontamination costs. Decontamination programs will produce output streams which can be free released into the commercial marketplace, and materials in which contamination levels remain too high for free release, but which can find uses in products remanufactured for the nuclear or nuclear waste industries.
- OSTI ID:
- 598142
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970830--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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