Decontamination & melting of low level waste - a complete environmental restoration solution
- British Nuclear Fuels plc, Manchester (United Kingdom)
BNFL has almost completed the decommissioning of a major nuclear enrichment facility in the UK - the Capenhurst Diffusion Plant. This massive facility, 1,200m long and 150m wide and housed under a single roof consisted of a cascade of 4,800 {open_quote}stage units{close_quote} of various sizes connected by 1,800 km of process gas pipework. Dismantling the plant yielded over 160,000 tonne of suspect surface-contaminated material. By the time the project is fully completed, around the middle of 1996, over 99.5% of the contaminated material will have been safely and cost-effectively treated such that it can be recycled for unrestricted use in a non-nuclear environment. The remaining material, as well as minimal quantities of secondary wastes arising from decontamination activities, will have been size-reduced and/or encapsulated to maximise the cost-effective use of the UK low-level waste burial facility at Drigg.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Williams (Paul) and Associates, Medina, OH (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 437517
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-106929; CONF-960783-; TRN: 97:000678-0053
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International low-level-waste conference, New Orleans, LA (United States), 22-24 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings: 1996 EPRI international low level waste conference; PB: 715 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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