Volume reduction of low-level radioactive wastes.

摘要

The volume of low-level radioactive wastes containing free water is reduced by introducing the waste as a finely atomized spray into a zone heated by means of a hot gas. Contact of the spray particles with the hot gas results in the production of a dry, flowable radioactive solid product and a gaseous non-radioactive product which contains substantially no NO<Sub>×</Sub> or SO<Sub>×</Sub> and no volatile radionuclides, which are retained in the solid product.