Industrial-Scale Processes for Stabilizing Radioactively Contaminated Mercury Wastes.

Broderick, T. E. ; Grondin, R.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Radioactive wastes;    Mercury;    Stabilization;    Radionuclides;    Solid wastes;   

RP-ID  :  DE2004827608

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes two industrial-scaled processes now being used to treat two problematic mercury waste categories: elemental mercury contaminated with radionuclides and radioactive solid wastes containing greater than 260-ppm mercury. The stabilization processes were developed by ADA Technologies, Inc., an environmental control and process development company in Littleton, Colorado. Perma-Fix Environmental Services has licensed the liquid elemental mercury stabilization process to treat radioactive mercury from Los Alamos National Laboratory and other DOE sites. ADA and Perma-Fix also cooperated to apply the >260-ppm mercury treatment technology to a storm sewer sediment waste collected from the Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, TN.