2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Chemical Engineering Advances in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

This session is devoted to chemical engineering advances in all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. This includes spent nuclear fuel management and recycling and waste treatment and disposal. Submissions from industry, universities and national laboratories are welcome describing basic and applied research through to plant operational experience.

Chair

Stuart T. Arm, Washington River Protection Solutions

Co-Chairs

Candido Pereira, Argonne National Laboratory
Vincent Van Brunt, University of South Carolina

Presentations

03:15 PM

(140a) Modeling Solidification Induced Stresses in Ceramic Waste Forms Containing Nuclear Wastes
Charles W. Solbrig, Kenneth J. Bateman

03:40 PM

(140b) Accelerated Carbonation Study for the Prediction of Long Term Performance of the Nirex Reference Vault Backfill in Radioactive Waste Disposal
Jia Sun, Stefaan J. R. Simons

04:05 PM

(140c) Modeling of Saltcake Dissolution
Rebecca K. Toghiani, Jeffrey S. Lindner

04:30 PM

(140d) Radioactive High-Level Waste Sludge Rheology and Particle Size: Implications for Vitrification Pre-Treatment Operations
Richard C. Daniel, Rick W. Shimskey, Reid A. Peterson

04:55 PM

(140e) Acid Consumption of Savannah River Site High Level Waste during Vitrification Pretreatment Processing
Bradley R. Pickenheim, Dan Lambert, Michael E. Stone, D. C. Koopman