The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

Curing of an epoxy resin causes the resin molecules to react and form a highly crosslinked network. In case the epoxy resin is heated at a considerably high rate momentary sample temperature will be ...

A project to demonstrate the use of innovative radioactive waste vitrification technology, developed in France, at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has been under way for the ...

With more and more nuclear reactors becoming active and increases in fuel consumption, an issue is raised: there is no conclusive method to handle the spent fuel. Vitrification of nuclear waste in ...

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., have announced the release of Vit Kit-NX, the latest addition to an established portfolio of vitrification solutions for in vitro fertilization (IVF). The advanced ...

Approximately three gallons of low-activity Hanford tank waste were vitrified at PNNL's Radiochemical Processing Laboratory in April. The laboratory-scale demonstration is an important step toward the ...