These are used to separate and quantify uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel and
liquid waste tanks, and measure trace and major elements in liquid and solid matrices (e.g., alloy compositions, or environmental monitoring samples).
Not exact matches
The Hanford cleanup mission commenced in 1989, and construction of a
waste treatment plant for the
liquid radioactive
waste in
tanks was launched a decade later and is more than three - fifths finished.
New rules, effective April 1, require drillers in North Dakota to divert
liquid waste to
tanks instead of pits.
The
waste will go through a water separation process using a vibrating screen and settling
tank, to separate the
waste into three streams: solid, sludge and
liquid effluent.
2) The septic
tank which stores the
waste material and properly disposes of
liquids into what is called a distribution box.
This
waste -
liquid is drained through the washer drain pipe (which connects directly into sewer or septic
tank) in case of the Laundry room or through the toilet (hooked to the toilet rim).
An estimated 50 million gallons of
liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive
waste tanks.
Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground
tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.