Download or read book Performance of High Plutonium containing Glasses for the Immobilization of Surplus Fissile Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reactivity of High Plutonium containing Glasses for the Immobilization of Surplus Fissile Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Office of Environmental Management Technical Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of Candidate Glass and Ceramic Forms for Immobilization of Surplus Plutonium written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Energy is pursuing the development of an immobilization technology for the disposition of excess plutonium.

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surplus Plutonium Disposition DOE EIS 0283 for Siting Construction and Operation of Three Facilities for Plutonium Disposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrated Development and Testing Plan for the Plutonium Immobilization Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This integrated plan for the DOE Office of Fissile Materials Disposition (MD) describes the technology development and major project activities necessary to support the deployment of the immobilization approach for disposition of surplus weapons-usable plutonium. The plan describes details of the development and testing (D & T) tasks needed to provide technical data for design and operation of a plutonium immobilization plant based on the ceramic can-in-canister technology (''Immobilization Fissile Material Disposition Program Final Immobilization Form Assessment and Recommendation'', UCRL-ID-128705, October 3, 1997). The plan also presents tasks for characterization and performance testing of the immobilization form to support a repository licensing application and to develop the basis for repository acceptance of the plutonium form. Essential elements of the plant project (design, construction, facility activation, etc.) are described, but not developed in detail, to indicate how the D & T results tie into the overall plant project. Given the importance of repository acceptance, specific activities to be conducted by the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (RW) to incorporate the plutonium form in the repository licensing application are provided in this document, together with a summary of how immobilization D & T activities provide input to the license activity. The ultimate goal of the Immobilization Project is to develop, construct, and operate facilities that will immobilize from about 18 to 50 tonnes (MT) of U.S. surplus weapons usable plutonium materials in a manner that meets the ''spent fuel'' standard (Fissile Materials Storage and Disposition Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision, ''Storage and Disposition Final PEIS'', issued January 14, 1997, 62 Federal Register 3014) and is acceptable for disposal in a geologic repository. In the can-in-canister technology, this is accomplished by encapsulating the plutonium-containing ceramic forms within large canisters of high level waste (HLW) glass. Deployment of the immobilization capability should occur by 2006 and be completed within 10 years.

Download or read book Compositions and Durabilities of Glasses for Immobilization of Plutonium and Uranium written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nuclear weapon arsenals of the United States and the Former Soviet Union are reduced, metric tonnage quantities of fissile material must be dispositioned. One of the potential disposition options for fissile weapons material is vitrification into a stable form -- essentially a plutonium or uranium single phase glass product. Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) at Savannah River Site (SRS) is actively developing suitable glass formulations for the long term safe storage of plutonium and uranium. These investigations are also being extended to develop glasses for the stabilization and storage of kilogram amounts of neptunium, americium, and curium that are currently stored as solutions in the process canyons at SRS -- thus the glasses are called actinide glasses. SRTC is also in the process of developing a remote process demonstration which can produce metric tonnage quantities of the glasses. This paper discusses the chemical compositions and durabilities of two types of actinide glasses under development. One of the glasses is a borosilicate, and the other an iron phosphate. In this initial study thorium and uranium were used as the actinides. Because of the low radioactivity of these elements, the glasses could be prepared and tested on the bench top. In studies beginning in FY '95, glasses containing neptunium, plutonium, americium and curium will be produced. These glasses will be prepared and tested remotely in the shielded cells and glovebox facilities at Savannah River Technology Center. In the initial study, a considerable number (>20) of thorium and uranium bearing glasses have been prepared. An equivalent number of rare earth surrogate (non-radioactive) glasses have also been prepared and tested. The glasses were prepared by mixing dry chemicals and melting them at 1425C for the borosilicate glasses and at 1100C for the iron phosphate glasses. (Abstract Truncated).

Download or read book The Office of Environmental Management Technical Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutonium Futures The Science written by Gordon D. Jarvinen and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,000 tons of plutonium exist throughout the world in the form of nuclear fuel, nuclear weapons, inventories of various types, and legacy materials. Regardless of ones views of how this condition came to be, or what actions are taken in the future, it is a certainty that large quantities of plutonium must be managed for many decades. Thus it is clear that the plutonium challenge is not only scientific, but political and socioeconomic as well. In view of the global nature of plutonium research efforts, the Plutonium Futures - The Science conference was established to increase awareness of the importance of the scientific underpinnings of plutonium research, and facilitate communication among its international practitioners. The 2003 conference is the third in this series; the two previous conferences were held in Santa Fe in 1997 and 2000. Extended abstracts of the presentations cover the latest results in plutonium condensed matter physics, materials science, compounds and complexes, environmental behavior, detection and analysis, separations and purification, nuclear fuel cycles, and waste isolation and disposal.

Download or read book The Spent Fuel Standard for Disposition of Excess Weapon Plutonium written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Plutonium Chemistry 1967 2000 written by Darleane C. Hoffman and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Storage and Disposition of Weapons usable Fissile Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Embedded Topical Meeting on DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel Fissile Material Management Reno Nevada June 16 20 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutonium Disposition and the U S Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIX Volume 412 written by Materials Research Society. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-03 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safe and effective management of nuclear waste provides a broad range of challenges for materials science. Waste processing, waste form and engineered barrier properties, interactions between engineered and geological systems, radiation effects, chemistry and transport of waste species, and long-term predictions of repository performance are just some of the scientific problems facing modern society. This book, the nineteenth in a very successful series from MRS, offers an international and interdisciplinary perspective on the issues, and features developments in both fundamental and applied areas. Topics include: excess plutonium dispositioning; spent nuclear fuel; glass waste forms; ceramic and crystalline waste forms; cement waste forms; waste processing; waste container materials; speciation and sorption; bentonite barriers; flow and transport; repository site characterization; natural analogs and performance assessment.