Composting is a solid waste treatment method that being widely applied in a larger scale treatment facility due to its advantage on energy consumption and low-level technologies aspects. However, composting that currently being applied to a largescale treatment facility is lack of systematic approaching, which is resulted in adverse effects on quality of final product, time cost, energy cost an...

Solid low-level radioactive wastes at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are disposed in trenches. In order to determine the permissible radioactive inventory limits for such disposal facilities, it is required to assess the behavior of radioactive waste material over long periods of time. The sensitivity of flow and I-129 (and similar radionuclides) transport in groundwater in the vadose zone to th...

A three-dimensional unsaturated-zone numerical model has been developed to simulate flow and distribution of moisture, gas and heat at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a potential repository site for high-level radioactive waste. The model takes into account the simultaneous flow dynamics of liquid water, vapor, air and heat in the highly heterogeneous, fractured porous rock in the Ž . unsaturated zone ...

There are 103 commercial nuclear power stations currently operating in the United States, generating a total of about 2 000 t of spent fuel each year. Over 40 000 t of spent fuel have accumulated since these plants began operation, with the fuel being stored first in at-reactor spent fuel storage pools and later in independent spent fuel storage installations and dry cask storage facilities. Th...

In India Co-60 is the isotope presently being used for medical applications. It needs frequent replacement because of its short half life (5.27 Years) resulting in multiple handling, transportation and loadingunloading operations. Further, in Indian scenario, production of Co-60 also leads to reactivity losses and in turn revenue losses to the nuclear power reactors. However, Cs-137, the major ...

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Sorption characteristics of Co which is rather troublesome nuclide from the aspect of low level radioactive waste disposal was studied. By use of ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer, coexistence of ionic and colloidal cobalts was verified in aqueous solution with pH>7. Column test was carried out with pH=8.75 and it showed that breakthrough curve obtained consists of two types of curves due t...

background: recently, the rapid increase in quantity and type of waste has resulted to environmental pollution and health hazards which serve as a major challenge to humans. the level of this waste can be so high that dangerous chemicals and biological contaminants can be found in ordinary household waste. major sources of waste in every city are mostly from care/health centers. hence, this stu...

The radionuclide of uranium (U) is major radionuclide contained in the long life of high level radioactive liquid waste (HLLW) generated from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The radioactive waste have to be treated to ready for long term disposal. Separation of the U at high efficiencies greatly lowers the volume of the long life alpha radioactive waste to be disposed and decreases the haza...

A B S T R A C T Membrane Assisted Liquid Extraction of Actinides and Remediation of Nuclear Waste: A Review N.S. Rathore1, Ana Maria Sastre2, Anil Kumar Pabby1,* * Corresponding author at: Phone: + 91 2525265197, Fax: +91 2525244158 Article history: Received 2014-08-01 Revised 2014-12-05 Accepted 2014-12-10 Available online 2014-12-10 Membrane assisted liquid extraction (MALE) technologies are ...