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The Hanford Site has a large quantity of highly radioactive chemical waste stored in underground tanks that hold up to 3.8 × 106 L (1 million gal) each. The waste is mostly supersaturated aqueous solutions of sodium nitrate, aluminum nitrate, and sodium hydroxide with radiation dose levels of up to 7 Gy/hr (700 R/hr). The waste is the result of over 50 years of nuclear fuels reprocessing stemming from the World War II Manhattan Project. Part of the current Hanford Site mission is to stabilize and reprocess this waste inventory.
Work performed for the USDOE under contract DE-AC06-87RL10930.
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Troyer, G.L. et al. (1998). High Performance Gamma Spectroscopy Measurements of Equipment Retrieved from Hanford High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks. 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_35
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