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Over 100 million gallons of radioactive waste is currently stored in more than 270 large underground storage tanks at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear reservations (Manke 1996). Of these tanks, 177 are located at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State (Gephart and Lundgren, 1996). These tanks have capacities ranging from 50,000 gallons to around 1,160,000 gallons. The waste in the Hanford Site tanks primarily exists as liquids (e. g., saturated salt solutions), sludge (a mixture of water and insoluble metal oxides and hydroxides), and saltcake (moist water-soluble salts such as sodium nitrate).
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Daymo, E.A., Reynolds, B.A., Geeting, J.G.H., Hymas, C.R. (1998). Radioactive Slurry Transport Issues and Proposed Monitoring Equipment for the Hanford Site. In: Schulz, W.W., Lombardo, N.J. (eds) Science and Technology for Disposal of Radioactive Tank Wastes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1543-6_14
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