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.
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"Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms". United States.
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title = {Process for immobilizing plutonium into vitreous ceramic waste forms},
author = {Feng, X and Einziger, R E},
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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journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {1997},
month = {8}
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