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Long-Term Behavior of Bitumen Waste Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

I.A. Sobolev
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
A.S. Barinov
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
M.I. Ojovan
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
N.V. Ojovan
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
I.V. Startceva
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
Z.I. Golubeva
Affiliation:
Scientific and Industrial Association ‘Radon’, the 7-th Rostovsky Lane 2/14, Moscow, RF, Fax: (095) 248 1941, E-mail: Oj@tsinet.ru
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Abstract

Waste blocks were produced in a bituminization plant using NPP-operational and other liquid wastes of low and intermediate level activity and tested under laboratory and near-surface wet disposal conditions. Leach rates of radioactive and non-radioactive waste components and depths of radionuclide penetration into the host loamy soil were estimated. Bituminized waste seems to occupy a middle position between cemented and vitrified waste forms in terms of radionuclide retention ability. For certain samples of the bitumen waste form, the testing covers a period of more then a quarter of a century that is of great importance for prediction of the waste form behavior over the required time period of several hundred years.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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