Calcination of sodium-bearing waste using non-radioactive additives
Description
Methods were scoped for converting the sodium-bearing waste stored at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant into granular, free flowing solids by fluidized-bed calcination at 5000C. The most promising methods were addition of aluminum nitrate or aluminum nitrate, hydrofluoric acid, and calcium nitrate to sodium-bearing waste prior to calcination. These will be used as alternates to a method consisting of adding calcium nitrate to a blend of zirconium fluoride and sodium-bearing wastes prior to calcination. Problems could develop in calcining such a blend, storing the resulting calcine, or in obtaining enough zirconium fluoride waste to blend with sodium-bearing waste
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A04/MF A01.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 69 p.
- Report number
- ENICO--1043
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 12582488
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM NITRATES; CALCINATION; CALCIUM NITRATES; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; IDAHO CHEMICAL PROCESSING PLAN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCONIUM FLUORIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NITRATES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PYROLYSIS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; US AEC; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS