RESULTS OF U.S./RUSSIAN COLLABORATION ON HIGH-LEVEL WASTE TANK PROBLEMS

摘要

The technical challenges associated with radioactive waste retrieval, pretreatment, characterization, and immobilization are some of the most significant challenges facing the scientific community today. Once these tanks are cleaned, isolating and placing them into a safe condition presents challenges that involve stakeholder, regulatory, and technical acceptance. These challenges are not unconquerable, but they do require creativity, innovation, and determination.rnThrough partnerships with Russia, TFA has demonstrated technologies used to clean out several full-scale tanks in the Russian Krasnoyarsk-26 site; directed the development of a technology capable of bounding transuranics in a retrievable matrix; and tested U.S. and Russian solid-liquid filters using actual Russian waste. The potential use of these technologies and those of future cooperation will depend on the success of meeting the technical specifications of the users.