Waste Forms Technology and Performance - Final Report

"The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) is responsible for cleaning up radioactive waste and environmental contamination resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons production and testing. A major focus of this program involves the retrieval, processing, and immobilization of waste into stable, solid waste forms for disposal. Waste Forms Technology and Performance, a report requested by DOE-EM, examines requirements for waste form technology and performance in the cleanup program. The report provides information to DOE-EM to support improvements in methods for processing waste and selecting and fabricating waste forms. Waste forms technology and performance places particular emphasis on processing technologies for high-level radioactive waste, DOE's most expensive and arguably most difficult cleanup challenge. The report's key messages are presented in ten findings and one recommendation."--Publisher's description.

Product details

• Authors: Committee on Waste Forms Technology and, Committee on Waste Forms Technology and Performance, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council, Nuclear And Radiation Studies Board
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2011
• EAN: 9780309187336
• ISBN: 978-0-309-18733-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Umweltwissenschaften