Kurion Completes Proof of Concept Design Contract

Modular Vitrification System to vitrify K-Basins Sludge Stored at the DOE Hanford Site

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kurion, Inc. announced it had completed a contract to CH2MHILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) evaluating use of its Modular Vitrification System (MVS®) to safely encapsulate sludges presently stored at the Hanford K-Basins spent fuel pool. Under the terms of the contract, Kurion evaluated how its MVS® could prepare waste forms suitable for disposal of K-Basins sludge as remotely handled transuranic (RH-TRU) waste at the DOE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Using its patented MVS® technology, Kurion studied how the uranium metal bearing sludge, soon to be retrieved from the basins by CHPRC, could be mixed with glass formers and treated at elevated temperatures to encapsulate and immobilize the sludge in a glass matrix. Using vitrification, issues normally problematic for other waste forms such as free water, organic content and hydrogen generation within the product container are eliminated.

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