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GAO report describes cleanup progress at Moab Mill Site
A new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has disposed of more than 16 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste from the Moab Mill Site. While cleanup continues at the Cold War–era uranium ore processing site in southeastern Utah, a plan for the next phase of groundwater remediation is still needed, according to the GAO.
Peter Colombo, Robert M. Neilson, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 30-38
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31735
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Techniques are developed for the solidification of radioactive wastes in concrete. Included are the sources, storage, volume reduction, and solidification of liquid wastes at Brookhaven National Laboratory using the cement-vermiculite process, as well as solid waste treatment, shipping containers, and off-site shipments of solid wastes. The properties of low-heat-generating high-level wastes, simulating those in storage at the Savannah River Plant, solidified in concrete were determined. Polymer impregnation was found to further decrease the leachability and improve the durability of these concrete waste forms.