Waste Forms Technology and Performance

Waste Forms Technology and Performance

Final Report

  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309187336
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309187343
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309224970
  • Lugar de publicación:  Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2011
  • Mes: Agosto
  • Páginas: 309
  • Idioma: Ingles

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) is responsible for cleaning up radioactive waste and environmental contamination resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons production and testing. A major focus of this program involves the retrieval, processing, and immobilization of waste into stable, solid waste forms for disposal. Waste Forms Technology and Performance, a report requested by DOE-EM, examines requirements for waste form technology and performance in the cleanup program. The report provides information to DOE-EM to support improvements in methods for processing waste and selecting and fabricating waste forms. Waste Forms Technology and Performance places particular emphasis on processing technologies for high-level radioactive waste, DOE's most expensive and arguably most difficult cleanup challenge. The report's key messages are presented in ten findings and one recommendation.

  • FrontMatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Findings and Recommendations
  • 2 Background and Study Task
  • 3 Waste Forms
  • 4 Waste Processing and Waste Form Production
  • 5 Waste Form Testing
  • 6 Waste Forms and Disposal Environments
  • 7 Waste Form Performance in Disposal Systems
  • 8 Legal and Regulatory Factors for Waste Form Performance
  • 9 Possible Opportunities in Waste Form Science and Technology
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
  • Appendix B: Workshop on Waste Form Technology and Performance
  • Appendix C: Interim Report
  • Appendix D: Glossary
  • Appendix E: Acronyms

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