Method of handling radioactive alkali metal waste
Abstract
Radioactive alkali metal is mixed with particulate silica in a rotary drum reactor in which the alkali metal is converted to the monoxide during rotation of the reactor to produce particulate silica coated with the alkali metal monoxide suitable as a feed material to make a glass for storing radioactive material. Silica particles, the majority of which pass through a 95 mesh screen or preferably through a 200 mesh screen, are employed in this process, and the preferred weight ratio of silica to alkali metal is 7 to 1 in order to produce a feed material for the final glass product having a silica to alkali metal monoxide ratio of about 5 to 1.
- Inventors:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5278321
- Assignee:
- TIC; ERA-05-028466; EDB-80-082421
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; GLASS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SOLIDIFICATION; ALKALI METALS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SILICA; CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; MANAGEMENT; METALS; MINERALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing
Citation Formats
Wolson, R D, and McPheeters, C C. Method of handling radioactive alkali metal waste. United States: N. p.,
Web.
Wolson, R D, & McPheeters, C C. Method of handling radioactive alkali metal waste. United States.
Wolson, R D, and McPheeters, C C. .
"Method of handling radioactive alkali metal waste". United States.
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abstractNote = {Radioactive alkali metal is mixed with particulate silica in a rotary drum reactor in which the alkali metal is converted to the monoxide during rotation of the reactor to produce particulate silica coated with the alkali metal monoxide suitable as a feed material to make a glass for storing radioactive material. Silica particles, the majority of which pass through a 95 mesh screen or preferably through a 200 mesh screen, are employed in this process, and the preferred weight ratio of silica to alkali metal is 7 to 1 in order to produce a feed material for the final glass product having a silica to alkali metal monoxide ratio of about 5 to 1.},
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