Review of Cementitious Materials Development and Applications That Have Supported DOE-EM Missions: Waste Treatment, Conditioning, Containment Structures, Tank Closures, Facility Decommissioning, Environmental Restoration, and Structural Assessments
Year: 2019
Type: report
Abstract: The Department of Energy (DOE) is tasked with managing the legacy defense wastes that resulted from nuclear materials production and nuclear arms development. Nuclear-waste management encompasses generation, processing (treatment and packaging), storage, transport, and disposal. To date, there are over 100 million gallons of liquid radioactive and chemical mixed wastes within the Department of Energy complex as well as solid waste, debris, and environmental restoration media that require disposal. DOE has been able to meet the challenges involved in dispositioning this waste using unique technical approaches and application-specific data required due to the nature of the constituents to be managed (e.g., long-lived radionuclides and highly mobile radionuclides in the near surface environments). Cementitious materials have played a prominent role historically in the successful disposition of these wastes, in the reduction of risk to the public, and in the closure of decommissioned tanks and facilities across the DOE complex.
DOI: 10.2172/1527156
Institution: Savannah River National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G295998058, G3221090193, G381281670
OpenAlex ID: W2951799618