Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-8gtf8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-16T01:30:43.009Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Direct Conversion of Halogen-Containing Wastes to Borosilicate Glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

C. W. Forsberg ,
E. C. Beahm  and
J. C. Rudolph
C. W. Forsberg
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, forsbergcw@ornl.gov
E. C. Beahm
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, forsbergcw@ornl.gov
J. C. Rudolph
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, forsbergcw@ornl.gov
Get access

Abstract

Glass has become a preferred waste form worldwide for radioactive wastes; however, there are limitations. Halogen-containing wastes can not be converted to glass because halogens (chlorides, fluorides, etc.) form poor-quality waste glasses. Furthermore, halides in glass melters often form second phases that create operating problems. A new waste vitrification process, the Glass Material Oxidation and Dissolution System (GMODS), removes these limitations by converting halogen-containing wastes into borosilicate glass and a secondary, clean, sodium-halide stream.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 465: Symposium II – Scienfific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XX , 1996 , 131
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Brough, W. G. and Boerigter, S. T., Plutonium-Bearing Materials Feed Report for the DOE Fissile Materials Disposition Program Alternatives, UCRL-IE-120749, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, April 1995.Google Scholar
2. Forsberg, C. W., Beahm, E. C., and Parker, G. W., Patent Application to the U.S. Office of Trademarks and Patents, U. S. Department of Commerce: The Treatment of Halogen Containing Wastes and Other Waste Materials, May, 18 1995.Google Scholar
3. Forsberg, C. W., Beahm, E. C, Parker, G. W., Rudolph, J., Haas, P., Mailing, G. F., Elam, K. R., Ott, L., Direct Vitrification of Plutonium-Containing Materials With The Glass Material Oxidation and Dissolution System (GMODS), ORNL-6825, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, October 1995.10.2172/198873Google Scholar
4. Queneau, P. E. and Siegmund, A., JOM, 48 (4), 38 (April 1996).10.1007/BF03222918Google Scholar
5. Hantke, G., Gmelins Handbuch Der Anorganischen Chemie: Blei, Vol. 47, Verlag Chemie-GMBH, Weinheim, 1969.Google Scholar
6. Outokumpu Research, HSC Chemistry for Windows, Outokumpu, Finland, 1992.Google Scholar
7. Slough, W., and Jones, G. P., Chem. 31, (August 1974).Google Scholar
8. Linak, W. P. and Wendt, J. L., Prog. Energ. and Combust. Sci. 19, p. 145 (1993).Google Scholar
9. King, M., “Lead,” in Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Vol 15, eds. Kroschwitz, J. I. and Howe-Grant, M., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995, p. 69.Google Scholar