Conversion of radioactive ferrocyanide compounds to immobile glasses

Patent · 26 April 1977

OSTI ID:862819

Schulz, Wallace W ^[1]; Dressen, A Louise ^[1]

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1. Richland, WA

Complex radioactive ferrocyanide compounds result from the scavenging of cesium from waste products produced in the chemical reprocessing of nuclear fuel. These ferrocyanides, in accordance with this process, are converted to an immobile glass, resistant to leaching by water, by fusion together with sodium carbonate and a mixture of (a) basalt and boron trioxide (B.sub.2 O.sub.3) or (b) silica (SiO.sub.2) and lime (CaO).

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4020004
• Application Number: 05/634,224
• OSTI ID: 862819
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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