SYNROC fabrication development
Description
SYNROC may be fabricated in the laboratory by graphite die hot pressing but this process is considered unsuitable for commercial development. Demonstration of fabrication scale-up by realistic methods is considered to be essential to allay concern in other countries that SYNROC fabrication may be too expensive to contemplate. The methodology of the AAEC SYNROC development has been to scale up SYNROC fabrication in stages. The first stage culminated in late 1981 in the demonstration of the validity of the 'in-can hot pressing' concept for the production of 30 kg, 10 cm diameter by 1 m long, cylinders of dense SYNROC canned in stainless steel. Further scale-up has involved the use of thin-walled stainless steel bellows as the primary SYNROC containers for either 'free-standing bellows hot pressing' or 'in-canister bellows hot pressing'
Availability note (English)
Available from Research Policy and Programs Branch, Dept. Resources and Energy, Canberra, Australia.Additional details
Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 0 642 86516 7
- Imprint Pagination
- 55 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 17072041
- Subject category
- S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- BELLOWS; HOT PRESSING; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SIMULATION; SYNROC PROCESS; SYNTHETIC ROCKS
- Descriptors DEC
- FABRICATION; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS WORKING; PRESSING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; ROCKS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Project NERDDP/EG/83/223