Sizing and Melting Development Activities Using Contaminated Metal at the Waste Experimental Reduction Facility

摘要

EG and G Idaho, Inc., has established the Waste Experimental Reduction Facility (WERF) at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) to develop the capability to reduce the volume that low-level beta/gamma wastes occupy at the disposal site. The work effort at WERF includes a waste sizing development activity (WSDA), a waste melting development activity (WMDA), and a waste incineration development activity (WIDA). This report describes work and developments to date in the sizing and melting activities at WERF involving beta/gamma-contaminated metal. (ERA citation 11:000184)