Environmental Issues and Waste Management Technologies in the Ceramic and Nuclear Industries IX: Vienna/Environmental

In today's world of increasingly stringent environmental regulations, it is critical to identify and adequately address environmental issues in the ceramic industry to ensure success. In addition, ceramics and glasses play a critical role in the nuclear industry. Nuclear fuels and waste forms for low-level and high-level radioactive, mixed, and hazardous wastes are primarily either ceramic of glass. Effective and responsible environmental stewardship is becoming increasingly more important in the world. These proceedings detail the results of the ongoing effort in these areas. Proceedings of the symposium held at the 105th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, April 27-30, in Nashville, Tennessee; Ceramic Transactions, Volume 155.

Two symposia conducted during the American Ceramic Society's April 2003 annual meeting focused on the use of ceramics in energy and environment restoration and on energy conservation and environmental issues in ceramics and manufacturing. Thirty-five of the papers from those symposia are here presented by Vienna (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Spearing (Los Alamos National Laboratory), who have organized the contributions into sections on ceramics for waste or nuclear applications, melter processing and process monitoring, waste vitrification programs, glass formulation and property models, and alternate waste forms and processes. Individual subjects include iron- substituted barium hollandite ceramics for cesium immobilization, characterization and dissolution of high level waste calcine in alkali borosilicate glass, a review of the French waste vitrification program, composition effects on the vapor hydration of waste glasses, and characterization and performance of fluidized bed steam reforming product as a final waste form. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR