Waste forms technology and performance : final report / Committee on Waste Forms Technology and Performance, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Findings and recommendations -- Background and study task -- Waste forms -- Waste processing and waste form production -- Waste form testing -- Waste forms and disposal environments -- Waste form performance in disposal systems -- Legal and regulatory factors for waste form performance -- Possible opportunities in waste form science and technology
Summary
"The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) is responsible for cleaning up radioactive waste and environmental contamination resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons production and testing. A major focus of this program involves the retrieval, processing, and immobilization of waste into stable, solid waste forms for disposal. Waste Forms Technology and Performance, a report requested by DOE-EM, examines requirements for waste form technology and performance in the cleanup program. The report provides information to DOE-EM to support improvements in methods for processing waste and selecting and fabricating waste forms. Waste forms technology and performance places particular emphasis on processing technologies for high-level radioactive waste, DOE's most expensive and arguably most difficult cleanup challenge. The report's key messages are presented in ten findings and one recommendation."--Publisher's description
