NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT AND TRANSPORTATION. QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT, OCTOBER--DECEMBER 1974

Research progress is reported on all Division of Waste Management and Transportation funded programs at Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, with the exception of the Commercial Radioactive Waste Fixation Program. Topics reported on include advanced methods for management and disposal of radioactive wastes; separation of actinide elements from radioactive waste; decontamination and densification of chop-leach cladding residues; pyrolysis-incineration of combustible alpha wastes; tritium separation and fixation; characteristics of 300 and WYE burial grounds; disposition of retired contaminated facilities at Hanford; development of packaging technology for Pu(N03)4 shipment; and transportation safety studies. /NSA/

• Corporate Authors:

  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  3180 George Washington Way
  Richland, WA  United States  99354
• Authors:
  • Dau, G J
• Publication Date: 1975-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 70 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Actinides; Cladding; Contaminants; Hazardous materials; Incinerators; Packaging; Pyrolysis; Radioactive materials; Radioactive waste disposal; Radioactive wastes; Research projects; Safety; Shipping; Solidification; Spent reactor fuels; Traffic; Transportation; Tritium; Waste disposal; Wastes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decontamination; Removal; Research programs
• Old TRIS Terms: Plutonium nitrates; Pyrolsis; Underground disposal; Waste transportation
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Maintenance and Preservation; Materials; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091914
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: AT(45-1)-1830
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1976 12:00AM