Published 1986
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Journal article
A pilot plant demonstration of the vitrification of radioactive solutions using microwave power
Description
A process has been developed that exploits the characteristics of microwave heating for the vitrification of high-level radioactive liquid waste. This process, microwave vitrification, has been successfully operated at pilot plant scale in an active cell using simulated liquid waste containing several curies of radioactivity. Excellent decontamination factors have been achieved for both volatiles and nonvolatiles with an average ruthenium decontamination factor of 490 and a gross alpha emitter decontamination factor of 100,000. Almost all the radioactivity is incorporated in a glass block
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nucl. Chem. Waste Manage.
- Journal Volume
- 6
- Journal Issue
- 3/4
- Series
- Nucl. Chem. Waste Manage.
- Journal Page Range
- 193-195
- ISSN
- 0191-815X
- CODEN
- NCWMD
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18066238
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALPHA PARTICLES; DECONTAMINATION; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; GLASS; HEATING; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; LIQUID WASTES; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVITY; RUTHENIUM; VITRIFICATION; VOLATILE MATTER
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLES; CLEANING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; HELIUM IONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IONS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MATTER; METALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PLATINUM METALS; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES