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Savannah River marks the closure of another legacy waste tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has received concurrence from regulators that Tank 14 at the Savannah River Site has reached preliminary cease waste removal (PCWR) status after radioactive liquid waste was successfully removed from the tank. PCWR is a regulatory milestone in the closure of SRS’s old-style waste tanks, which were built in the 1950s to store waste generated by the chemical separations of plutonium and uranium.
Xiaonan Liu, Yi Ding, Xirui Lu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 198 | Number 1 | April 2017 | Pages 64-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2017.1292810
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In this work, the immobilization of simulated radionuclide 90Sr by fly ash-slag-metakaolin–based geopolymer was investigated. It was found that the thermal stability (high-temperature and freeze-thaw resistance) of the geopolymer waste forms were better than that of cement. The geopolymer waste forms can acquire a compressive strength up to 10 MPa after 2 h calcination at 1000°C. Furthermore, the leaching tests revealed that the fly ash-slag-metakaolin–based geopolymer waste forms had lower cumulative fraction leaching rates of 90Sr than that of cement. These results gave encouragement for the idea that the fly ash-slag-metakaolin–based geopolymers could be used as low cost and high efficiency host materials for the immobilization of radioactive wastes.