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Continuous Laboratory-Scale Melter Runs for System Evaluation

Dixon, Derek R.·Hall, Mark A.·Lang, Jesse B.·Cutforth, Derek A.·Stewart, Cody M.·Eaton, William C.
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The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) will process and stabilize waste that is stored in underground tanks on the Hanford Site. Currently, the first phase of the planned WTP startup and operation, called Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW), involves directly feeding only the liquid portion of the waste to electric melters in the WTP Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Vitrification Facility without full pretreatment. A second portion of the tank waste, called high-level waste (HLW), is set to contain most of the radioactivity inventory.

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Dixon, Derek R., Hall, Mark A., Lang, Jesse B., Cutforth, Derek A., Stewart, Cody M., Eaton, William C.. 2020-06-01. Continuous Laboratory-Scale Melter Runs for System Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.2172/1660460

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