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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
A. J. Francis, C. R. Iden, B. J. Nine, C. K. Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | September 1980 | Pages 158-163
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32541
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several trench leachate samples collected from commercially operated low-level radioactive waste disposal sites at Maxey Flats, Kentucky and at West Valley, New York were analyzed for organic constituents. The organic compounds in the water samples were extracted with methylene chloride, separated into acidic, basic, and neutral fractions, and analyzed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. About 75 compounds consisting of several straight and branched chain aliphatic acids, aromatic acids, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, amines, aromatic hydrocarbons, esters, ethers, and phenols were identified in the leachate samples. These compounds represent, in general, the synthetic and natural organic wastes such as contaminated cellulosic materials, scintillation liquids, solvents, and decontamination fluids buried in the trenches and their biological decomposition products. The organic compounds, especially the organic acids, phthalates, and tributyl phosphate, may influence the mobility of the radionuclides from the burial trenches by solubilization, leaching, and formation of weak complexes.
