Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Waste Vitrification Projects Throughout the US Initiated by SRS

Creator

  • Author: Jantzen, Carol M.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Westinghouse Savannah River Company, AIKEN, SC (United States)
  • Author: Whitehouse, J. C.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Smith, M. E.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Pickett, J. B.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Peeler, D. K.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Westinghouse Savannah River Company
    Place of Publication: Aiken, South Carolina
    Additional Info: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1998-05-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: 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.
  • Physical Description: 16 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Radioactive Waste Processing
  • Keyword: Radioactive Wastes
  • STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
  • Keyword: Savannah River Plant
  • Keyword: Waste Disposal
  • Keyword: Radioactive Waste Management

Source

  • Conference: 100. annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Cincinnati, OH (United States), 3-6 May 1998

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE98051872
  • Report No.: WSRC-MS--95-0422P
  • Report No.: CONF-980521--
  • Grant Number: AC09-96SR18500
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 610197
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc690626

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE98051872
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