Evaluation of U S Department of Energy's Alternatives for the Removal and Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fluoride Salts

by Molten Salt Panel of the Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, National Research Council, et al.

This book discusses the technical alternatives for cleanup of radioactive fluoride salts that were the fuel for the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, a novel nuclear reactor design that was tested in the 1960s at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. These fluoride salts pose an unusual cleanup challenge. The book discusses alternatives for processing and removing the salts based on present knowledge of fluoride salt chemistry and nuclear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309056845
• ISBN13: 9780309056847
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"