Waste Treatment
The “Waste Treatment” team develops methods for characterizing, treating, and conditioning radioactive and chemotoxic waste streams with the aim of minimizing the volume of waste destined for final disposal.
The decommissioning of nuclear facilities will generate some problematic waste streams for which no routine methods for handling, characterization, treatment and conditioning exist so far and thus require the development of tailor made management options. Some wastes are considered problematic due to their specific radionuclide inventory or the presence of chemotoxic constituents (e.g. mercury, beryllium) and do not meet the waste acceptance criteria for final disposal (with a view of the German repository Konrad for low and intermediate level radioactive waste). Research into this topic at IFN-2 comprises the development of advanced management options for these waste streams including technologies to recover long-lived constituents, such as the minor actinides from highly radioactive spent fuel solutions.
The work is divided among two teams, each with a different focus:
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