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Progress Report on Waste Processing Development Project

The work of the BNL Waste Processing Development Project has been concerned with developing means to accomplish three main objectives in handling radiochemical wastes. One is to reduce the corrosiveness of the waste. At present some wastes must be stored in SS vessels at high cost, since other tankage would not resist corrosion for any length of time. Hanford has solved a part of this problem by storing a neutralized or alkaline waste which can be contained more cheaply in 1020 steel vessels, a… more

Date: January 1956

Creator: Zwickler, S.; Manowits, B.; Allen, V.; Helfant, M.; Isler, R. J.; Oriez, R. et al.

Item Type: Report

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Pilot Plant Fluorination of Uranium Fuel Elements by Bromine Trifluoride

The so-called Fluoride Volatility Processes refer to several proposed non-aqueous methods of processing irradiated fuel elements. In each of these methods, the uranium is fluorinated to uranium hexafluoride and then decontaminated by distillation. One of the methods, involving direct fluorination of the uranium by bromine trifluoride, has been under investigation at BNL since 1950; subsequently a pilot plant was built to study this step of the process. The objectives of the program were to inve… more

Date: July 26, 1956

Creator: Strickland, G.; Horn, F. L. & Johnson, R.