Published 1990
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Report
Monitored retrievable storage at Sellafield
Description
This paper describes the Monitored retrievable storage facilities constructed by BNFL at its Sellafield site.The paper first describes the different waste streams handled by BNFL and the overall routing of these waste streams. The criteria which affect store design are discussed. The paper then goes on to describe each store together with the waste characteristics which have shaped the design. Stores ranging from highly active vitrified waste stores and intermediate level waste stores to drum stores for plutonium contaminated material are described
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Waste management '90: Working towards a cleaner environment: Waste processing, transportation, storage and disposal, technical programs and public education. Volume 2, HLW and LLW technology: Proceedings
- Imprint Pagination
- 988 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 765-770.
- Report number
- CONF-900210--Vol.2
Conference
- Title
- working towards a cleaner environment: waste processing, transportation, storage and disposal, technical programs and public education.
- Acronym
- Waste management '90
- Dates
- 25 Feb - 1 Mar 1990.
- Place
- Tucson, AZ (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22004991
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNITED KINGDOM; US MRS PROJECT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; STORAGE; WASTES