Waste management. Savannah River Laboratory quarterly report, April--June 1978

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6418466

The following were studied: environmental impact of long-term management of high-level radioactive waste at SRP (draft programmatic statement), Defense Waste Solidification Facility, cost analysis of defense waste processing facilities, improved reference process for defense waste supernate clarification, removal of /sup 90/Sr from waste supernate, removal of Al from sludges by caustic washing, ion chromatographic determination of nitrite, demonstration of large-scale calciner, radiolytic gas production from TRU waste in concrete, incorporation of TRU incinerator ash into glass, improved glass frit, test of small-scale joule-heated melter, evaluation of candidate alloys for in-can melting canisters, residual solids from Tank 16 annulus, waste monitors, chemical form of Pu in burial ground soil, alpha waste trench coring, corrosion of buried drums, radionuclide release and migration from buried wastes, ground water flow pattern from burial ground wells, and radionuclide uptake by pine trees from buried irradiated scrap metal. 65 figures, 60 tables. (DLC)

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-09-0001
• OSTI ID: 6418466
• Report Number(s): DPST-78-125-2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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