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Title: Feed specification for the double-shell tank/single shell tank waste blend for high-level waste vitrification process and melter testing

Abstract

The High-Level Waste (HLW) Vitrification Program is developing technology for the Department of Energy to immobilize high-level and transuranic waste as glass for permanent disposal. In support of the program, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting laboratory-scale melter feed preparation studies and HLW melter testing which require a simulated HLW feed. The simulant HLW feed represents a blend of the waste from 177 single shell and double shell tanks. The waste blend composition is based on normalized track radionuclide components (TRAC), historical tank data, and assumptions on the pretreatment of the waste. The HLW simulant feed specification for the waste blend composition provides direction for the preparation of laboratory-scale and large-scale HLW blend simulant to be used in melter feed preparation studies and melter testing.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
211344
Report Number(s):
PNNL-10988
ON: DE96008007; TRN: 96:009808
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; HANFORD RESERVATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; VITRIFICATION; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; TANKS; REMEDIAL ACTION; SPECIFICATIONS

Citation Formats

Tracey, E M, Merz, M D, Patello, G K, and Wiemers, K D. Feed specification for the double-shell tank/single shell tank waste blend for high-level waste vitrification process and melter testing. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.2172/211344.
Tracey, E M, Merz, M D, Patello, G K, & Wiemers, K D. Feed specification for the double-shell tank/single shell tank waste blend for high-level waste vitrification process and melter testing. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/211344
Tracey, E M, Merz, M D, Patello, G K, and Wiemers, K D. 1996. "Feed specification for the double-shell tank/single shell tank waste blend for high-level waste vitrification process and melter testing". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/211344. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/211344.
@article{osti_211344,
title = {Feed specification for the double-shell tank/single shell tank waste blend for high-level waste vitrification process and melter testing},
author = {Tracey, E M and Merz, M D and Patello, G K and Wiemers, K D},
abstractNote = {The High-Level Waste (HLW) Vitrification Program is developing technology for the Department of Energy to immobilize high-level and transuranic waste as glass for permanent disposal. In support of the program, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting laboratory-scale melter feed preparation studies and HLW melter testing which require a simulated HLW feed. The simulant HLW feed represents a blend of the waste from 177 single shell and double shell tanks. The waste blend composition is based on normalized track radionuclide components (TRAC), historical tank data, and assumptions on the pretreatment of the waste. The HLW simulant feed specification for the waste blend composition provides direction for the preparation of laboratory-scale and large-scale HLW blend simulant to be used in melter feed preparation studies and melter testing.},
doi = {10.2172/211344},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/211344}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1996},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1996}
}