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Water treatment technologies for a mixed waste remedial action

Abstract

Water treatment is an important element of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP), which is cleaning up a former uranium processing plant near St. Louis, Missouri. This project, under the management of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), includes treatment and release of contaminated surface water and possibly groundwater at the plant site and a nearby quarry, which was once used for waste disposal. The contaminants include uranium, thorium, radium, nitroaromatics, nitrates, and metals. Three water treatment plants will be used to treat contaminated water prior to its release to the Missouri River. The first, construction of which is nearly complete, will treat contaminated surface water and interstitial water in and around the quarry. A stepwise process of sedimentation, clarification, filtration, adsorption, and ion exchange will be used to remove the contaminants. A similar sequence will be used for the first train of the water treatment plant at the plant site, although process details have been adjusted to address the different contaminant concentrations. The site water treatment plant will also have a second train consisting of a vapor compression/ distillation (VCD) system. Train 2 is necessary to treat waters primarily from four raffinate pits containing high concentrations of  More>>
Authors:
Reith, C; Freeman, G; [1]  Ballew, B [2] 
  1. Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., St. Charles, MO (United States)
  2. Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project, Dames and Moore, St. Charles, MO (United States)
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1992
Product Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Symposium on waste management '92, Tucson, AZ (United States), 1-5 Mar 1992; Other Information: 2 figs, 1 tab; PBD: 1992; Related Information: In: Waste management '92: working towards a cleaner environment: Waste processing, transportation, storage and disposal, technical programs and public education. Volumes 1 and 2, Technology and programs for radioactive waste management and environmental restoration: Proceedings, by Post, Roy G. [Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States)] (ed.), 1926 pages.
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ADSORPTION; CONTAMINATION; DECONTAMINATION; DISTILLATION; FILTRATION; ION EXCHANGE; MISSOURI RIVER; NITRATES; NONRADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIUM; REMEDIAL ACTION; SEDIMENTATION; THORIUM; URANIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS
OSTI ID:
20621827
Research Organizations:
American Nuclear Society, Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division (United States); American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Arizona Univ., College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson, AZ (United States); International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: XA05C0598065477
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 1315-1319
Announcement Date:
Aug 28, 2005

Citation Formats

Reith, C, Freeman, G, and Ballew, B. Water treatment technologies for a mixed waste remedial action. IAEA: N. p., 1992. Web.
Reith, C, Freeman, G, & Ballew, B. Water treatment technologies for a mixed waste remedial action. IAEA.
Reith, C, Freeman, G, and Ballew, B. 1992. "Water treatment technologies for a mixed waste remedial action." IAEA.
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title = {Water treatment technologies for a mixed waste remedial action}
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abstractNote = {Water treatment is an important element of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP), which is cleaning up a former uranium processing plant near St. Louis, Missouri. This project, under the management of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), includes treatment and release of contaminated surface water and possibly groundwater at the plant site and a nearby quarry, which was once used for waste disposal. The contaminants include uranium, thorium, radium, nitroaromatics, nitrates, and metals. Three water treatment plants will be used to treat contaminated water prior to its release to the Missouri River. The first, construction of which is nearly complete, will treat contaminated surface water and interstitial water in and around the quarry. A stepwise process of sedimentation, clarification, filtration, adsorption, and ion exchange will be used to remove the contaminants. A similar sequence will be used for the first train of the water treatment plant at the plant site, although process details have been adjusted to address the different contaminant concentrations. The site water treatment plant will also have a second train consisting of a vapor compression/ distillation (VCD) system. Train 2 is necessary to treat waters primarily from four raffinate pits containing high concentrations of inorganics (e.g., nitrates, sulfates, and chlorides) in addition to radionuclides, nitroaromatics, and metals contamination that are common in most of the waters at the site. Construction is under way on the First train of this facility. After it is treated, all water will be impounded and batch tested for compliance with the project's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits prior to release to the Missouri River. The third water treatment plant is a mobile system that will be used to treat waters in some of the building sumps. (author)}
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