Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms
Abstract
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.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 527769
- Patent Number(s):
- 5656009
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-658,416; TRN: 97:016701
- Assignee:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Richland, WA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 12 Aug 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; SPENT FUELS; PLUTONIUM; VITRIFICATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; WASTE FORMS; CERAMICS; GLASS
Citation Formats
Feng, X, and Einziger, R E. Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms. United States: N. p., 1997.
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Feng, X, & Einziger, R E. Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms. United States.
Feng, X, and Einziger, R E. Tue .
"Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 1997},
month = {Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 1997}
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