Investigation of the Potential Hazard in Releasing Scrap Steel Contaminated with Uranium to Commercial Channels | Zendy

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Investigation of the Potential Hazard in Releasing Scrap Steel Contaminated with Uranium to Commercial Channels

Author(s) -

Hanson Blatz,

Naomi H. Harley,

Merril Eisenbud

Publication year - 1951

Publication title -

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

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/972755

Subject(s) - scrap , uranium , contamination , metallurgy , slag (welding) , waste management , hazard , environmental science , depleted uranium , materials science , engineering , chemistry , ecology , organic chemistry , biology

Tests were conducted on a laboratory and semi-plant scale to determine the effect of permitting scrap grossly contaminated with uranium to be used in steel manufacture. It was found the most of the uranium is removed with the slag. Steel made with this scrap would have a uranium constituent so little above that made with uncontaminated scrap as to be hardly significant. The slag itself would not present any hazard in handling or normal use. It is recommended, therefore, that in the future steel with only surface uranium contamination be released through normal scrap channels

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