Process for decontaminating radioactive liquids using a calcium cyanamide-containing composition. [Patent application]

Patent · 24 September 1980

OSTI ID:6300127

Silver, G L

The present invention provides a process for decontaminating a radioactive liquid containing a radioactive element capable of forming a hydroxide. This process includes the steps of contacting the radioactive liquid with a decontaminating composition and separating the resulting radioactive sludge from the resulting liquid. The decontaminating composition contains calcium cyanamide.

• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00053
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): None
• OSTI ID: 6300127
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACTINIDES
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CLEANING
CYANAMIDES
DECONTAMINATION
ELEMENTS
LIQUID WASTES
MANAGEMENT
METALS
NEPTUNIUM
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PLUTONIUM
PRECIPITATION
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
STRONTIUM
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES