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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 601-606
Technical Paper | Redioactive Waste Managment | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32805
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Savannah River Laboratory is testing the slurry feeding of a ceramic melter as a possible method to vitrify Savannah River Plant high-level radioactive waste. Feeding a liquid slurry requires simpler and less expensive equipment than does feeding a powdered calcine. Experiments have progressed from manual feeding, to a semiautomatic system, to the present slurry-feed system, which is completely automatic. All experiments to date indicate that slurry feeding is a promising way of vitrifying waste. No safety hazards associated with feeding the slurry onto molten glass at 1150°C have been observed experimentally, even when the melter chamber was purposely flooded.