Waste forms technology and performance
Subtitle: final report
By: 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
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780309187336
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal; Forecasting; United States; Planning; United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Environmental Management; Evaluation; Radioactive waste sites
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Findings and recommendations; title: Background and study task; title: Waste forms; title: Waste processing and waste form production; title: Waste form testing; title: Waste forms and disposal environments; title: Waste form performance in disposal systems; title: Legal and regulatory factors for waste form performance; title: Possible opportunities in waste form science and technology.