Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Research Council. 1996. Glass as a Waste Form and Vitrification Technology: Summary of an International Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...

With more and more nuclear reactors becoming active and increases in fuel consumption, an issue is raised: there is no conclusive method to handle the spent fuel. Vitrification of nuclear waste in ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) won GeekWire’s Innovation of the Year award for its vitrification technology, ...

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The Hanford site vitrification plant being built to treat radioactive waste now has two massive melters heated to full temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The next step will be to begin running ...

The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since World War ...

Among all of the terrible ways to get rid of nuclear waste, there’s one that stands above the rest for being a little less horrible: turning the radioactive parts into glass, a process called ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

Curing of an epoxy resin causes the resin molecules to react and form a highly crosslinked network. In case the epoxy resin is heated at a considerably high rate momentary sample temperature will be ...

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