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The Development of a Ceramic Waste Form for Immobilisation of Highly Active Wastes from Radical Purex Reprocessing Operations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

Ewan Maddrell
Ewan Maddrell*
Affiliation:
British Nuclear Fuels pic, Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG
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Abstract

The development of novel, Radical Purex, reprocessing technologies, leading to fission product waste streams with high levels of inert constituents, may mean that vitrification is no longer the optimum solution for the immobilisation of highly active wastes at the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. A ceramic phase assemblage is described which uses the inert constituents of the waste stream as a functional component of the waste form, permitting high waste loadings to be achieved and thus enabling waste minimisation considerations to be satisfied. The initial development of this phase assemblage is presented.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 465: Symposium II – Scienfific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XX , 1996 , 481
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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