Published 1985
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Glass vitrification of nuclear wastes
Description
Bechtel has been retained by Du Pont to design and engineer the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) to vitrify high-level radioactive wastes. DWPF will collect the sludge from the bottom of storage tanks, wash it down and chemically neutralize it, and mix it with pulverized glass called frit, in a melter vessel where it becomes a molten homogeneous mass. The molten glass is poured into a 2 ft. diameter by 10 ft. tall stainless steel container. Operating techniques and facilities are described in this paper
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01; 1 as DE86001976.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 11 p.
- Report number
- DP-MS--85-12
Conference
- Title
- San Francisco Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers meeting.
- Dates
- 18 Apr 1985.
- Place
- San Francisco, CA (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17028769
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CERAMIC MELTERS; CONSTRUCTION; ENGINEERING; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SPECIFICATIONS; VITRIFICATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRIC FURNACES; FURNACES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-8504184--1.