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Stabilization of Radioactive Waste GeoMelt® Vitrification Technologies GeoMelt® ICV™ melt surface 10-tonne GeoMelt® ICV™ melter, Andrews, Texas Engineering-scale thermal imagery GeoMelt® ICV™ LAW glass, AMG13 showing no corrosion WTP LAW glass, LAW-ABP1 showing significant corrosion Superior Chemical Durability Performance 100-Day Vapor Hydration Test for Hanford WTP LAW Glass GeoMelt ® technologies are a group of vitrification processes that are configured in a variety of ways to meet a wide range of radioactive and hazardous waste treatment and remediation needs. GeoMelt ® vitrification destroys organic wastes and immobilizes radionucludes and heavy metals in an ultra-stable glass similar to obsidian and typically 10 times stronger than concrete. • Joule heated melting technology for hazardous radioactive waste treatment and immobilization • Commercially proven on radioactive heavy metals and organic wastes in the US, Japan, UK, and Australia • Invented by Battelle for US DOE; we own exclusive world-wide rights • GeoMelt® In-Container Vitrification (ICV)™ treats radioactive wastes in single-use containers; the melter is the disposal container • GeoMelt® ICV™ has treated a wide variety of mixed radioactive waste chemistries at scales ranging from ½-tonne to 50 tonnes melts e GeoMelt ® vitrification process offers significant advantages for radioactive and hazardous waste treatment and site remediation: • Commercially proven at large scale • Produces a superior chemically and mechanically durable wasteform • Scalability, flexibility, simplicity, and high waste loadings improves project economics and reduces lifecycle costs • Simultaneous processing of mixed organic, inorganic, and radioactive wastes • High radionuclide retention • Permitted by the US EPA for treatment of PCBs (99.9999% proven destruction and removal efficiency) • Operating plants in the UK and Japan NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS
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Stabilization of Radioactive WasteGeoMelt® Vitrification Technologies
GeoMelt® ICV™ melt surface 10-tonne GeoMelt® ICV™ melter, Andrews, TexasEngineering-scale thermal imagery
GeoMelt® ICV™ LAW glass, AMG13 showing no corrosion
WTP LAW glass, LAW-ABP1 showing significant corrosion
Superior Chemical Durability Performance
100-Day Vapor Hydration Test for Hanford WTP LAW Glass
GeoMelt® technologies are a group of vitrification processes that are configured in a variety of ways to meet a wide range of radioactive and hazardous waste treatment and remediation needs. GeoMelt® vitrification destroys organic wastes and immobilizes radionucludes and heavy metals in an ultra-stable glass similar to obsidian and typically 10 times stronger than concrete.
• Joule heated melting technology for hazardous radioactive waste treatment and immobilization• Commercially proven on radioactive heavy metals and organic wastes in the US, Japan, UK, and Australia• Invented by Battelle for US DOE; we own exclusive world-wide rights• GeoMelt® In-Container Vitrification (ICV)™ treats radioactive wastes in
single-use containers; the melter is the disposal container• GeoMelt® ICV™ has treated a wide variety of mixed radioactive waste
chemistries at scales ranging from ½-tonne to 50 tonnes melts
The GeoMelt® vitrification process offers significant advantages for radioactive and hazardous waste treatment and site remediation:
• Commercially proven at large scale• Produces a superior chemically and mechanically durable wasteform• Scalability, flexibility, simplicity, and high waste loadings improves
project economics and reduces lifecycle costs• Simultaneous processing of mixed organic, inorganic, and radioactive wastes• High radionuclide retention• Permitted by the US EPA for treatment of PCBs (99.9999% proven destruction and removal efficiency)• Operating plants in the UK and Japan
NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS
Full-Scale GeoMelt® equipment at LANL
• Mobile field deployment• Series of full-scale non-radioactive and radioactive
demonstration melts• Successful treatment of contaminated effluent adsorption bed• Treated 450 tonnes of Pu-238/239,
Am-241-contaminated material in a single melt
US DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory
9.5-tonne GeoMelt® ICV™ melter, Iga City, Japan
• Our sublicensed hazardous waste treatment plant• 9.5-tonne ICV™ melter• Treats asbestos, PCBs, dioxins, and other persistent
organic pollutants
Daiei Kankyo Co, Ltd., Mie Prefrecture, Japan
Full-Scale GeoMelt® equipment at Maralinga
• Mobile field deployment• 6,500 tonnes of plutonium-contaminated soil and debris treated• Plutonium retention in glass >99.99%
Maralinga Nuclear Weapons Test Range, South Australia
• 200 tonnes of glass produced for Hanford LAW treatment demonstration.
• Full-scale treatment plant designed and permitted for construction and operation
US DOE Hanford Bulk Vitrification Project
50-tonne GeoMelt® ICV™ melter and LAW dryer
1/2-tonne GeoMelt® ICV™ melter
UK National Nuclear Laboratory, Sellafield
• Active commissioning completed in 2016.• Demonstration plant for treatment of orphan
wastes at Sellafield• Commissioning tests have processed radioactive waste
soils from four NDA nuclear licensed sites and Magnox sludge simulant; >99% retention of Cs-137 demonstrated.
Contact us for more information:BRETT CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR
office: 509.737.1377 | [email protected] | www.nuclearsolutions.veolia.com
