Laboratory-scale vitrification and leaching of Hanford high-level waste for the purpose of simulant and glass property models validation
Abstract
The Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant (HWVP) is being built to process the high-level and TRU waste into canistered glass logs for disposal in a national repository. Testing programs have been established within the Project to verify process technology using simulated waste. A parallel testing program with actual radioactive waste is being performed to confirm the validity of using simulates and glass property models for waste form qualification and process testing. The first feed type to be processed by and the first to be tested on a laboratory-scale is pretreated neutralized current acid waste (NCAW). The NCAW is a neutralized high-level waste stream generated from the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel in the Plutonium and Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant at Hanford. As part of the fuel reprocessing, the high-level waste generated in PUREX was denitrated with sugar to form current acid waste (CAW). Sodium hydroxide and sodium nitrite were added to the CAW to minimize corrosion in the tanks, thus yielding neutralized CAW. The NCAW contains small amounts of plutonium, fission products from the irradiated fuel, stainless steel corrosion products, and iron and sulfate from the ferrous sulfamate reductant used in the PUREX process. This paper will discuss the results andmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6510132
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-21885; CONF-930205-49
ON: DE93010168
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste management '93, Tucson, AZ (United States), 28 Feb - 4 Mar 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; GLASS; LEACHING; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; VITRIFICATION; SLURRIES; SIMULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; HANFORD RESERVATION; OFF-GAS SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TESTING; DISPERSIONS; DISSOLUTION; MATERIALS; MIXTURES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SUSPENSIONS; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing
Citation Formats
Morrey, E.V., Elliott, M.L., and Tingey, J.M.. Laboratory-scale vitrification and leaching of Hanford high-level waste for the purpose of simulant and glass property models validation. United States: N. p., 1993.
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Morrey, E.V., Elliott, M.L., & Tingey, J.M.. Laboratory-scale vitrification and leaching of Hanford high-level waste for the purpose of simulant and glass property models validation. United States.
Morrey, E.V., Elliott, M.L., and Tingey, J.M.. Mon .
"Laboratory-scale vitrification and leaching of Hanford high-level waste for the purpose of simulant and glass property models validation". United States.
doi:. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6510132.
@article{osti_6510132,
title = {Laboratory-scale vitrification and leaching of Hanford high-level waste for the purpose of simulant and glass property models validation},
author = {Morrey, E.V. and Elliott, M.L. and Tingey, J.M.},
abstractNote = {The Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant (HWVP) is being built to process the high-level and TRU waste into canistered glass logs for disposal in a national repository. Testing programs have been established within the Project to verify process technology using simulated waste. A parallel testing program with actual radioactive waste is being performed to confirm the validity of using simulates and glass property models for waste form qualification and process testing. The first feed type to be processed by and the first to be tested on a laboratory-scale is pretreated neutralized current acid waste (NCAW). The NCAW is a neutralized high-level waste stream generated from the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel in the Plutonium and Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant at Hanford. As part of the fuel reprocessing, the high-level waste generated in PUREX was denitrated with sugar to form current acid waste (CAW). Sodium hydroxide and sodium nitrite were added to the CAW to minimize corrosion in the tanks, thus yielding neutralized CAW. The NCAW contains small amounts of plutonium, fission products from the irradiated fuel, stainless steel corrosion products, and iron and sulfate from the ferrous sulfamate reductant used in the PUREX process. This paper will discuss the results and status of the laboratory-scale radioactive testing.},
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