Nuclear Waste Management Accomplishments of the Environmental Management Science Program

by Wang, Paul W.; Zachry, Tiffany

• ISBN13: 9780841239470
• ISBN10: 0841239479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-21
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is charged with cleaning up contaminated sites and disposing of radioactive waste remaining as an environmental legacy of former nuclear weapons development and production. Within the DOE, the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) has sought toadvance scientific knowledge and technological solutions to significantly reduce environmental cleanup costs, schedules, and risks. This symposium series book presents leading-edge research in the area of nuclear waste management conducted through the EMSP. The chapters are organized into foursections, focusing on (1) characterization, monitoring, and analysis techniques, (2) separations chemistry and technology, (3) facility inspection, decontamination, and decommissioning, as well as materials science, and (4) modeling and waste treatment chemistries. The selected contributors invitedfrom the overall DOE EMSP portfolio of 361 projects represent work being done across the country in universities and the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.

Table of Contents

Preface

Overview

Nuclear Waste Remediation: Accomplishments of the Environmental Management Science ProgramCharacterization, Monitoring, and Analysis Techniques

Fluorophores as Chemosensors Based on Calix[4]arenes and Three Different Fluorescence Reporters

Spectroscopic Properties and Redox Chemistry of Uranium in Borosilicate Glass

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Uranyl-Humic Complexes Using a Silver-Doped Sol-Gel Substrate

Analysis of Electrochemical Impedance Data for Iron in Borate Buffer Solutions

Investigating Ultrasonic Diffraction Grating Spectroscopy and Reflection Techniques for Characterizing Slurry Properties

Novel Chemical Detection Strategies for TCE and PCESeparations Chemistry and Technology

Separation of Fission-Products Based on Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Radionuclides - A Green Technology for Nuclear Waste Management

Fundamental Chemistry of the Universal Extraction (UNEX) Process for the Simultaneous Separation of Major Radionuclides (Cesium, Strontium, Actinides, and Lanthanides) fromRadioactive Wastes

Dynamics of Switch-Binding by a Linear Ligand that Transforms to a Macrocycle upon Chelation to a Metal Ion: Synthesis, Kinetics, and Equilibria

Organofunctional Sol-Gel Materials for Toxic Metal Separation

Facility Inspection, Decontamination, and Decommissioning

Materials Science

Investigation of Nanoparticle Formation during Surface Decontamination and Characterization by Pulsed Laser

Recent Progress in the Development ofSupercritical Carbon Dioxide-Soluble Metal Ion Extractants

Investigation of SOMS and Their Related PerovskitesModeling and Waste Treatment Chemistries

Solubility of TcO2DTxH2O(am) in the Presence of Gluconate in Aqueous Solution

Behavior of Technetium in Alkaline Solution: Identification of Non-Pertechnetate Species in High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks at the Hanford Reservation

Effects of Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Aluminate on the Precipitation of Aluminum Containing Species in Tank Wastes

Author Index

Subject Index

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