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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 30-38
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31735
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Techniques are developed for the solidification of radioactive wastes in concrete. Included are the sources, storage, volume reduction, and solidification of liquid wastes at Brookhaven National Laboratory using the cement-vermiculite process, as well as solid waste treatment, shipping containers, and off-site shipments of solid wastes. The properties of low-heat-generating high-level wastes, simulating those in storage at the Savannah River Plant, solidified in concrete were determined. Polymer impregnation was found to further decrease the leachability and improve the durability of these concrete waste forms.
