Chemical Separation Technologies and Related Methods of Nuclear Waste Management

by Choppin, Gregory R.; Khankhasayev, Mikhail Kh

• ISBN13: 9780792356387
• ISBN10: 0792356381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Separation technologies are of crucial importance to the goal of significantly reducing the volume of high-level nuclear waste, thereby reducing the long-term health risks to mankind. International co-operation, including the sharing of concepts and methods, as well as technology transfer, is essential in accelerating research and development in the field. The writers of this book are all internationally recognised experts in the field of separation technology, well qualified to assess and criticize the current state of separation research as well as to identify future opportunities for the application of separation technologies to the solution of nuclear waste management problems. The major emphases in the book are research opportunities in the utilization of innovative and potentially more efficient and cost effective processes for waste processing/treatment, actinide speciation/separation methods, technological processing, and environmental restoration.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Opening Session	ix
Vladimir G. Kadyshevsky
Boris F. Myasoedov
Roy C. Herndon
Nuclear Separation Methods and Technologies: 1944--1998
Overview of Chemical Separation Methods and Technologies	1	(16)
G.R. Choppin
Review of Historical Development and Application of Separation Technologies in Russia	17	(12)
V.N. Romanovsky
Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuel: Overview/Critique of the Worldwide Experience and Engineering/Technology Challenges for Separations	29	(24)
R.G. Wymer
Nuclear Separation Methods and Technologies: 1999--?
Technology Needs for Actinide and Technetium Separations Based on Solvent Extraction, Ion Exchange and Other Processes	53	(18)
G.D. Jarvinen
Review of Non-Aqueous Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Separation Methods. (View on World Experience from Dimitrovgrad)	71	(28)
A.V. Bychkov
O.V. Skiba
Review of Possible Technologies for Actinide Separation Using Other Extractants than TBP	99	(24)
C. Musikas
Studies of the Chemistry of Transactinides by Fast Separation Techniques	123	(12)
I. Zvara
Technology Needs for Nuclear Waste Processing
New Extraction Technologies for Management of Radioactive Wastes	135	(20)
V.V. Babain
A. Yu. Shadrin
Application of New Inorganic-Organic Composite Absorbers with Polyacrylonitrile Binding Matrix for Separation of Radionuclides from Liquid Radioactive Wastes	155	(14)
J. John
F. Sebesta
A. Motl
R&D Needs of Chemical Separation Technologies for Nuclear Wastes from the Perspective of Federal Governmental Programs of Russia	169	(18)
M. Khankhasayev
A.V. Komarov
Nuclear Waste Management: A Bioremediation Approach	187	(22)
H. Eccles
Nuclear Wastes and Environment
Up-to-date Radioecological Situation around the ``Mayak'' Nuclear Facility	209	(16)
B.F. Myasoedov
E.G. Drozhko
The Environmental Impacts of Uranium Mining and Milling and the Methods of their Reduction	225	(22)
P. Benes
Role of Humics in Actinide Behavior in Ecosystems	247	(14)
G.R. Choppin
Risk Assessment and Safety Issues
Risk Assessment for Chemicals & Radionuclides: Some Characteristics, Similarities and Differences	261	(12)
C.M. Teaf
The View from Russia of the Soviet-Designed Reactor Safety Program of the U.S. Department of Energy	273	(16)
D.W. Wester
Glossary	289	(4)
List of Abbreviations	293	(4)
Index	297