The Path to Nitrate Salt Disposition

Funk, David John

doi:10.2172/1242910

Title: The Path to Nitrate Salt Disposition

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The topic is presented in a series of slides arranged according to the following outline: LANL nitrate salt incident as thermal runaway (thermally sensitive surrogates, full-scale tests), temperature control for processing, treatment options and down selection, assessment of engineering options, anticipated control set for treatment, and summary of the overall steps for RNS.

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Funk, David John ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)

OSTI Identifier:: 1242910

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-16-21760
TRN: US1600922

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; WASTE DISPOSAL; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; NITRATES; LANL; SALTS; ACCIDENTS; ENGINEERING; EVALUATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING

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