Challenges with vitrification of Hanford High-Level Waste (HLW) to borosilicate glass – An overview

The Hanford site in Washington State houses ~56 million gallons of radioactive wastes stored in 177 underground tanks. The waste must be immobilized and permanently stored, and the plan is to separate the tank wastes into low activity waste (LAW) and high-level waste (HLW) streams. The U.S. Departme...

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Main Authors: Ashutosh Goel, John S. McCloy, Richard Pokorny, Albert A. Kruger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590159119300469