Glass as a Waste Form and Vitrification Technology Summary of an International Workshop (1996) / Chapter Skim
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In the former Soviet Union, a phosphate glass has been developed for its two vitrification plants, but, as reported in May 13-15, 1996, at the National Research Council International Workshop on Glass as a Waste Form and Vitrification Technology, Russia is developing vitrification technologies that also will use a borosilicate glass, as well as other alternative waste forms for separated long-lived radionuclides (see abstract by Aloy et al. in Appendix E)
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A three-day program cannot capture the detail of highly specialized waste management meetings held around the world (of which there are many; specifically the reader is referred to the proceedings of the Materials Research Society's annual symposium on the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, the biennial symposium of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the annual Waste Management meetings held in Tucson, Arizona)
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· Technologies: What is the state of practice of vitrification technologies, and what has been the international experience? Since the major purpose of the NRC workshop was to detains whether adequate interactions exist between these four issues, the workshop steering committee scheduled considerable time for discussion after presentations and during the program, and the audience obliged with knowledgeable enthusiasm.
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repository, perhaps at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, most likely will be commercial spent fuel, In an as-yet-undecided container, and the glass "logs" being produced at the DWPF in Savannah River and the WVDP in West Valley facilities. Thus, repository designs here and abroad will be tailored to existing glasses and in the United States to the disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
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nor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC3 currently has published regulations for Yucca Mountain on which acceptance criteria can be based, although EPA is drafting regulations after considering the National Research Council (1995)
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