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Title: Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS

Abstract

Technologies are being developed by the U. S. Department of Energy`s (DOE) Nuclear Facility sites to convert high-level, low-level, and mixed wastes to a solid stabilized waste form for permanent disposal. Vitrification is one of the most important and environmentally safest technologies being developed. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared vitrification the best demonstrated available technology for high-level radioactive waste and produced a Handbook of Vitrification Technologies for Treatment of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste. The Defense Waste Processing Facility being tested at will soon start vitrifying the high-level waste at. The DOE Office of Technology Development has taken the position that mixed waste needs to be stabilized to the highest level reasonably possible to ensure that the resulting waste forms will meet both current and future regulatory specifications. Vitrification produces durable waste forms at volume reductions up to 97%. Large reductions in volume minimize long-term storage costs making vitrification cost effective on a life cycle basis.

Authors:
 [1]; ; ; ;
  1. Westinghouse Savannah River Company, AIKEN, SC (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
610197
Report Number(s):
WSRC-MS-95-0422P; CONF-980521-
ON: DE98051872; TRN: 98:005481
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-96SR18500
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 100. annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Cincinnati, OH (United States), 3-6 May 1998; Other Information: PBD: May 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT

Citation Formats

Jantzen, C M, Whitehouse, J C, Smith, M E, Pickett, J B, and Peeler, D K. Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS. United States: N. p., 1998. Web.
Jantzen, C M, Whitehouse, J C, Smith, M E, Pickett, J B, & Peeler, D K. Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS. United States.
Jantzen, C M, Whitehouse, J C, Smith, M E, Pickett, J B, and Peeler, D K. 1998. "Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/610197.
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abstractNote = {Technologies are being developed by the U. S. Department of Energy`s (DOE) Nuclear Facility sites to convert high-level, low-level, and mixed wastes to a solid stabilized waste form for permanent disposal. Vitrification is one of the most important and environmentally safest technologies being developed. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared vitrification the best demonstrated available technology for high-level radioactive waste and produced a Handbook of Vitrification Technologies for Treatment of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste. The Defense Waste Processing Facility being tested at will soon start vitrifying the high-level waste at. The DOE Office of Technology Development has taken the position that mixed waste needs to be stabilized to the highest level reasonably possible to ensure that the resulting waste forms will meet both current and future regulatory specifications. Vitrification produces durable waste forms at volume reductions up to 97%. Large reductions in volume minimize long-term storage costs making vitrification cost effective on a life cycle basis.},
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