Decontamination of liquid radioactive wastes using seeded ultrafiltration

A number of techniques may be used to treat radioactive wastes. This paper presents a discussion of the relative merits of two of these: ion exchange and membrane filtration, and discusses the overall benefit of using seeded filtration to combine the advantages of each, with selected examples of where these techniques have been used. Evaporation is another technique that can be used, however, because of its high capital and operating costs its use is limited and it is not discussed here. Examples of the decontamination of standard solutions by novel materials tested by the Novel Absorber Evaluation Club are presented, and the advantages of the new PAN-based absorbers discussed