About the 1996 International Symposium on Extraction and Processing for the Treatment and Minimization of Wastes: Treatment of Radioactive Wastes

Monday, PM
Room: Pueblo/Sonora
October 28, 1996

Session Chairs: Dr. Brijendra Mishra, Dept. of Met. and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401; Co-Chair: Keith Axler, Nuclear Materials Tech. Division, Los Alamos Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

Application of Thermodynamic Modeling to the Remediation of Actinide-containing Wastes: Keith M. Axler, Mike H. West, Nuclear Tech. Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

2:25 pm

Fission Product Removal from Molten Salt Using Zeolite: C. Pereira and B. Babcock, Argonne National Lab, Chemical Tech. Div.,
9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439

2:50 pm

Separation and Recovery of Radioactive Cesium from Highly Acidic Nuclear Waste by Insoluble Metal Hexacyano Ferrate (III) Ion Exchangers: Raj P. Singh, Chemical and Met. Products, OSRAM-SYLVANIA, Hawes St., Towanda, PA 18848-0504

3:15 pm BREAK

3:30 pm

In Flight Calcination of Radio Active Waste Simulant in a Thermal Plasma Flow Reactor: P. R. Taylor, S. A. Pirzada, Milton Manrique, Dept. of Met. and Mining Eng., College of Mines, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843; R. S. Goheen, Process Analysis and Separations Group, Battelle PNL, Battelle Blvd., PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; C. H. Delegard, Westinghouse Hanford Company, Richland, WA 99352

3:55 pm

Novel Use of Geochemical Models in Evaluating Treatment Trains for Aqueous Radioactive Waste Streams: Richard J. Abitz, IT Corporation, 5301 Central Avenue N.E., Suite 700, Alburquerque, NM 87108

4:20 pm

Alloy Waste Forms for Metal Fission Products and Actinides Isolated by Spent Nuclear Fuel Treatment: S. M. McDeavitt, D. P. Abraham, Argonne National Lab, Chemical Tech. Division, 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439; D. D. Keiser, Argonne National Lab, Eng. Division, PO Box 2528, Idaho Falls, ID 83403