Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms

Patent · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:870803

Feng, Xiangdong ^[1]; Einziger, Robert E ^[1]

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1. Richland, WA

Disclosed is a method for converting spent nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium into a vitreous ceramic final waste form wherein spent nuclear fuel is bound in a crystalline matrix which is in turn bound within glass.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5597516
• OSTI ID: 870803
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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