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SETTLING OF SPINEL IN A HIGH-LEVEL WASTE GLASS MELTER

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High-level nuclear waste is being vitrified, i.e., converted to a durable glass that can be stored in a safe repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Waste vitrification is accomplished in reactors called melters to which the waste is charged together with glass-forming additives. The mixture is electrically heated to a temperature as high as 1150 decrees C to create a melt that becomes glass on cooling

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Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00792249; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/792249-heHBHD/native/

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https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/792249-heHBHD/native/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
10 p.
Report number
DOE/ER--45738

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
34016009
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
Descriptors DEI
ADDITIVES; CERAMIC MELTERS; GLASS; MIXTURES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SPINELS; VITRIFICATION; WASTES
Descriptors DEC
DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FURNACES; FURNACES; MATERIALS; MINERALS; OXIDE MINERALS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; WASTES

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Contract/Grant/Project number
EMSP 65422; FG07-98ER45738
Funding organization
(US)