Author: Pacific Northwest LaboratoryPublisher:
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages :
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High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives
Author: Pacific Northwest LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages :
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High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives: Sect. 1. Summary
Author: K. J. SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Nuclear Waste Disposal
Author: Mark HoltPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923275
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Contents: (1) Proposals for a New Direction; (2) Baseline: Current Waste Program Projections; (3) Options for Halting or Delaying Yucca Mountain: Withdraw License Application; Reduce Appropriations; Key Policy Appointments; Waste Program Review; (4) Consequences of a Yucca Mountain Policy Shift: Federal Liabilities for Disposal Delays; Licensing Complications for New Power Reactors; Environmental Cleanup Penalties; Long-Term Risk; (5) Nuclear Waste Policy: Options; Institutional Changes; Extended On-Site Storage; Federal Central Interim Storage; Private Central Storage; Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Recycling; Non-Repository Options; New Repository Site; (6) Concluding Discussion.
High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives: Sect. 7. Waste partitioning
Author: K. J. SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives
Author: Pacific Northwest LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives
Author: Pacific Northwest LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages :
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High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives. Section 4. Geologic Disposal
Author: High-level Radioactive Waste Management Alternatives: Sect. 4. Geologic disposal
Author: K. J. SchneiderPublisher:
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages :
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Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309073170
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Focused attention by world leaders is needed to address the substantial challenges posed by disposal of spent nuclear fuel from reactors and high-level radioactive waste from processing such fuel. The biggest challenges in achieving safe and secure storage and permanent waste disposal are societal, although technical challenges remain. Disposition of radioactive wastes in a deep geological repository is a sound approach as long as it progresses through a stepwise decision-making process that takes advantage of technical advances, public participation, and international cooperation. Written for concerned citizens as well as policymakers, this book was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and waste management organizations in eight other countries.
Alternatives for High-Level Waste Salt Processing at the Savannah River Site
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030917158X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Second World War introduced the world to nuclear weapons and their consequences. Behind the scene of these nuclear weapons and an aspect of their consequences is radioactive waste. Radioactive waste has varying degrees of harmfulness and poses a problem when it comes to storage and disposal. Radioactive waste is usually kept below ground in varying containers, which depend on how radioactive the waste it. High-level radioactive waste (HLW) can be stored in underground carbon-steel tanks. However, radioactive waste must also be further immobilized to ensure our safety. There are several sites in the United States where high-level radioactive waste (HLW) are stored; including the Savannah River Site (SRS), established in 1950 to produce plutonium and tritium isotopes for defense purposes. In order to further immobilize the radioactive waste at this site an in-tank precipitation (ITP) process is utilized. Through this method, the sludge portion of the tank wastes is being removed and immobilized in borosilicate glass for eventual disposal in a geological repository. As a result, a highly alkaline salt, present in both liquid and solid forms, is produced. The salt contains cesium, strontium, actinides such as plutonium and neptunium, and other radionuclides. But is this the best method? The National Research Council (NRC) has empanelled a committee, at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), to provide an independent technical review of alternatives to the discontinued in-tank precipitation (ITP) process for treating the HLW stored in tanks at the SRS. Alternatives for High-Level Waste Salt Processing at the Savannah RIver Site summarizes the finding of the committee which sought to answer 4 questions including: "Was an appropriately comprehensive set of cesium partitioning alternatives identified and are there other alternatives that should be explored?" and "Are there significant barriers to the implementation of any of the preferred alternatives, taking into account their state of development and their ability to be integrated into the existing SRS HLW system?"