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Update: Senate includes $250k for EPA generic repository
The U.S. Senate’s proposed Department of the Interior funding package provides $250,000 to develop a generic, technology-neutral standard for future high-level nuclear waste disposal facilities.
The goal is for the Environmental Protection Agency to use modern and international practices in creating new plans to store U.S. nuclear waste. This spring, the EPA had requested $635,000 to fund this work—but even the proposed $250,000 would help get the process moving.
So far, funding has been included only in the Senate’s version of the appropriations bill, but supporters hope it makes the final package when Senate and House lawmakers conference on the final fiscal year 2025 appropriations legislation this fall.
For more details, see the original story below from June 28.
Hai-Di Liu, Fu-Zhi Li, Xuan Zhao, Gui-Chun Yun
Nuclear Technology | Volume 165 | Number 2 | February 2009 | Pages 200-208
Technical Paper | Decontamination/decommissioning | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A4086
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We developed a new method for the preparing of a potassium cobalt hexacyanoferrate (PCH)/SiO2 composite as a granulated inorganic adsorbent to remove Cs+ from the radioactive waste solution. The process comprised two steps: The first step was preparing nanoscaled PCH particles, and the second step was stabilizing the PCH particles into the in situ-generated porous silica with aqueous silica sol used as SiO2 source. Granulated composite particles with good rigidity could be successfully prepared with this method. At the same time, the PCH content in the composite could reach 70 wt%, which is one of the highest PCH loads that have been reported.The PCH particles and composite were analyzed with X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive analysis of X-rays, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller methods. It was indicated by the results that the PCH particles and porous silica were mixed with each other homogeneously in the composite. Adsorption behaviors of the composite upon Cs+ under competition of coexisting ions (H+, Na+, and K+) were studied in batch experiments to determine the distribution coefficient (Kd). The as-fabricated composite exhibited high Cs adsorbing capacity (0.335 meq Cs/g composite) and good Cs+ selectivity from the mixture of competing ions (H+, Na+, and K+). All these characteristics made it a promising material for treating radioactive wastewater.