Novel glass formulations for post-operational clean out of highly active storage tanks

摘要

Sellafield Ltd has a long history of reprocessing nuclear fuel from both UK nuclear reactors and for overseas customers. During reprocessing uranium and plutonium are recovered from spent irradiated fuel to recycle into new fuel. The remaining fission products are immobilised into a stable glass matrix in the waste vitrification plant (WVP) at Sellafield for long term storage.