Industrial-Scale Processes For Stabilizing Radioactively Contaminated Mercury Wastes
This paper describes two industrial-scaled processes now being used to treat two problematic mercury waste categories: elemental mercury contaminated with radionuclides and radioactive solid wastes containing greater than 260-ppm mercury. The stabilization processes were developed by ADA Technologies, Inc., an environmental control and process development company in Littleton, Colorado. Perma-Fix Environmental Services has licensed the liquid elemental mercury stabilization process to treat radioactive mercury from Los Alamos National Laboratory and other DOE sites. ADA and Perma-Fix also cooperated to apply the >260-ppm mercury treatment technology to a storm sewer sediment waste collected from the Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, TN.
- Research Organization:
- ADA Technologies, Inc., Littleton, CO; Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Richland, WA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- none (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 827608
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2003 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/23/2003--02/27/2003; Other Information: PBD: 24 Feb 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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