SOLIDIFICATION OF SIMULATED TRANSURANIC CONTAMINATED INCINERATOR ASH WASTES USING PORTLAND TYPE I CEMENT

摘要

A preliminary study was performed to investigate the use of hydraulic cement for the solidification of transuranic (TRU) contaminated incinerator ash wastes. In this work, the compositional phase fields in which acceptable solidification is obtained using portland type I cement were determined for three simulated TRU incinerator ash wastes. These wastes include Battelle Northwest TRU incinerator ash, Rocky Flats plutónium recycle TRU incinerator ash, and Mound Laboratory cyclone incinerator TRU ash llA . The compressive strengths and set times of selected formulations were measured.