Fig. 1. Relationship between waste and raw materials in the production and use of building materials; the lines illustrating areas of interest for Waste Management are emphasized. An ever-increasing number of papers focusing on the use of waste as an alternative material in the production of building materials is being submitted to Waste Management. Indeed, the wide variety of waste components ...

After five decades that the nuclear power industry has been in existence, it matured and its share world energy supply is 16 %.The article provides a review of development technology during past half century, with emphasis upon peaceful applications. The circumstances subsequent decline demand for electricity from plants are analyzed several aspects. characteristics four generations reactors, s...

An induction cold crucible melting is one of the most promising technologies for the reuse and decontamination of the radioactively contaminated metallic materials generated during the dismantling of nuclear facilities, because the crucible ensures a long life operation without generating secondary wastes. Fundamental equipment of the Melting and Recycling of Metals by Cold Crucible (MERC) proc...

985 The Hanford Site in south-central Washington State produced plutonium for the USDOE weapons program from 1943 to 1989. Plutonium (Pu) production involved the fi ssion of uranium fuels using nine nuclear reactors along the Columbia River, followed by the extraction and concentration of trace product Pu through chemically intensive processing regimes performed in the central portion of the si...

In recent years, geological disposal of radioactive waste has focused on placement of highand intermediate-level wastes in mined underground caverns at depths of 500–800 m. Notwithstanding the billions of dollars spent to date on this approach, the difficulty of finding suitable sites and demonstrating to the public and regulators that a robust safety case can be developed has frustrated attemp...

An effective and simple process for the isolation of 106Ru from high-level liquid wastes was developed. Radioactive ruthenium was oxidized by H5IO6 in HNO3 solution and was extracted to CCl4 phase in the form of RuO4. In order to obtain ruthenium in the suitable form for production of brachytherapy sources, RuO4 in organic phase was reduced and re-extracted to aqueous phase. The efficiency of e...

Glasses in lead-iron phosphate (LIP) system loaded with simulated nuclear waste, were melted in the temperature range750-950oC. Some of the LIP glasses were mixed with uranium salt. The pH determinations of the leachate solution at normal temperature show some interesting trends. Leaching study of these glasses with a maximum time period of 300 hrs. were conducted under Soxhlet distillation con...

Currently, much of our biodegradable wastes such as kitchen wastes, agricultural wastes & animal wastes are used to produce Biogas, a powerful greenhouse gas. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a treatment that composts these wastes in the absence of oxygen, producing a biogas that can be used to generate Heat & Power. Producing renewable energy from our biodegradable wastes helps to tackle the energy...