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Plutonium immobilization plant using glass in new facilities at the Savannah River Site

Author(s) -

Angela DiSabatino

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/289592

Subject(s) - plutonium , savannah river site , spent nuclear fuel , waste management , radioactive waste , high level waste , nuclear reprocessing , environmental science , radiochemistry , chemistry , nuclear chemistry , engineering

The Plutonium Immobilization Plant (PIP) accepts plutonium (Pu) from pit conversion and from non-pit sources and, through a glass immobilization process, converts the plutonium into an immobilized form that can be disposed of in a high level waste (HLW) repository. This immobilization process is shown conceptually in Figure 1-1. The objective is to make an immobilized form, suitable for geologic disposal, in which the plutonium is as inherently unattractive and inaccessible as the plutonium in spent fuel from commercial reactors

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