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Liquid waste recovered from the 177 underground storage tanks at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington will be pretreated to separate the low-activity fraction from the high-level and transuranic wastes [Ecology 1996]. If vitrification is selected for immobilization of the low-activity wastes (LAW), then approximately 550,000 MT of LAW glass is expected to be produced and disposed at Hanford in a near-surface facility (Figure 1). The LAW at Hanford is among the largest volumes of waste within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex and is one of the largest inventories of long-lived radionuclides planned for disposal in a low-level waste facility.
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Bacon, D.H., McGrail, B.P. (1998). Source Term Analysis for Hanford Low-Activity Tank Waste using the Storm Code: A Coupled Unsaturated Flow and Reactive Transport Model. 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_31
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