Low-level and mixed waste treatment at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6539720

Gillins, R L; Larsen, M M

EG and G Idaho, Inc. conducts a program to evaluate low-level radioactive and radioactively contaminated hazardous (mixed) wastes generated at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and to develop safe, efficient, and cost effective treatment methods for these wastes. Treatment methods to reduce the volume of low-level wastes are in operation at the Waste Experimental Reduction Facility and have resulted in significant savings in burial space at the laboratory's low-level waste disposal site. Stabilization of mixed waste is also being performed to render the wastes nonhazardous. Other mixed waste treatment processes are being investigated to allow the INEL to render mixed wastes being generated and currently stored suitable for disposal. 1 fig., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 6539720
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-88436; CONF-881054-45; ON: DE89005275
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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