The acid digestion process for radioactive waste: The radioactive waste management series. Volume II

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6733936

Cecille, L; Simon, R

This volume focuses on the acid digestion process for the treatment of alpha combustible solid waste by presenting detailed performance figures for the principal sub-assemblies of the Alona pilot plant, Belgium. Experience gained from the operation of the US RADTU plant, the only other acid digestion pilot plant, is also summarized, and the performances of these two plants compared. In addition, the research and development programmes carried out or supported by the Commission of the European Communities are reviewed, and details of an alternative to acid digestion for waste contamination described. Topics considered include review of the treatment of actinides-bearing radioactive wastes; alpha waste arisings in fuel fabrication; Alona Demonstration Facility for the acid digestion process at Eurochemic Mol (Belgium); the treatment of alpha waste at Eurochemic by acid digestion-feed pretreatment and plutonium recovery; US experience with acid digestion of combustible transuranic waste; and The European Communities R and D actions on alpha waste.

• OSTI ID: 6733936
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACIDIFICATION
ACTINIDES
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES
BELGIUM
COMBUSTION PROPERTIES
DIGESTION
ELEMENTS
EUROPE
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
PERFORMANCE
PILOT PLANTS
PLUTONIUM
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RECOVERY
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SOLID WASTES
TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
WESTERN EUROPE