Plutonium immobilization plant using glass in existing facilities at the Savannah River Site
Author(s) -
LLNL DiSabatino A.
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 - 10.2172/665038
Subject(s) - savannah river site , plutonium , environmental science , waste management , ceramic , archaeology , materials science , metallurgy , engineering , radioactive waste , radiochemistry , chemistry , geography
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. 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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