Nuclear Waste Management and Transportation quarterly progress report, April--June 1975

Research progress is reported on all Division of Waste Management and transportation funded programs at Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, with the exception of the Commercial Radioactive Waste Fixation Program. Topics reported on include advanced methods for management and disposal of radioactive wastes; separation of actinide elements from radioactive waste; decontamination and densification of chop-leach cladding residues; pyrolysis-incineration of combustible alpha wastes, tritium separation and fixation; characterization of 300 and WYE burial grounds; disposition of retired, contaminated facilities at Hanford; development of packaging technology for Pu(NO$sub 3$)$sub 4$ shipment; and transportation safety studies. (LK