SOIL DESICCATION TECHNIQUES STRATEGIES FOR IMMOBILIZATION OF DEEP VADOSE CONTAMINANTS AT THE HANFORD CENTRAL PLATEAU Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title SOIL DESICCATION TECHNIQUES STRATEGIES FOR IMMOBILIZATION OF DEEP VADOSE CONTAMINANTS AT THE HANFORD CENTRAL PLATEAU

Creator

  • Author: MW, BENECKE
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: GB, CHRONISTER
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: MJ, TRUEX
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Environmental Management.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)

Publisher

  • Name: Hanford Site (Wash.)
    Place of Publication: Richland, Washington
    Additional Info: Hanford Site (HNF), Richland, WA (United States))

Date

  • Creation: 2012-01-30

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Deep vadose zone contamination poses some of the most difficult remediation challenges for the protection of groundwater at the Hanford Site where processes and technologies are being developed and tested for use in the on-going effort to remediate mobile contamination in the deep vadose zone, the area deep beneath the surface. Historically, contaminants were discharged to the soil along with significant amounts of water, which continues to drive contaminants deeper in the vadose zone toward groundwater. Soil desiccation is a potential in situ remedial technology well suited for the arid conditions and the thick vadose zone at the Hanford Site. Desiccation techniques could reduce the advance of contaminants by removing the pore water to slow the rate of contaminants movement toward groundwater. Desiccation technologies have the potential to halt or slow the advance of contaminants in unsaturated systems, as well as aid in reduction of contaminants from these same areas. Besides reducing the water flux, desiccation also establishes capillary breaks that would require extensive rewetting to resume pore water transport. More importantly, these techniques have widespread application, whether the need is to isolate radio nuclides or address chemical contaminant issues. Three different desiccation techniques are currently being studied at Hanford.

Subject

  • Keyword: Isotopes
  • STI Subject Categories: 12 Management Of Radioactive Wastes, And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities
  • Keyword: Waste Management
  • Keyword: Ground Water
  • Keyword: Remedial Action
  • Keyword: Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory
  • Keyword: Soils
  • Keyword: Water
  • Keyword: Contamination
  • STI Subject Categories: 54 Environmental Sciences
  • Keyword: Rewetting
  • Keyword: Transport

Source

  • Conference: WM2012 WASTE MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIA 02/26/2012 THRU 03/01/2012 PHOENIX AZ

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

  • Report No.: CHPRC-01641-FP Rev 0
  • Grant Number: DE-AC06-08RL14788
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 1034777
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc837371
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