Setting and stiffening of cementitious components in Cast Stone waste form for disposal of secondary wastes from the Hanford waste treatment and immobilization plant

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• 作者：Chul-Woo Chung¹ ; Jaehun Chun ; ^{jaehun.chun@pnnl.gov} ; Wooyong Um ; S.K. Sundaram² ; Joseph H. Westsik Jr.
• 关键词：Rheology (A) ; X-ray diffraction (B) ; Transport Properties (C) ; Radioactive Waste (E) ; Ultrasonic wave reflection
• 刊名：Cement and Concrete Research
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：46
• 期：Complete
• 页码：14-22
• 全文大小：1160 K

文摘

Cast Stone is a cementitious waste form, a viable option to immobilize secondary nuclear liquid wastes generated from the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. However, no study has been performed to understand the flow and stiffening behavior, which is essential to ensure proper workability and is important to safety in a nuclear waste field-scale application. X-ray diffraction, rheology, and ultrasonic wave reflection methods were used to understand the specific phase formation and stiffening of Cast Stone. Our results showed a good correlation between rheological properties of the fresh mixture and phase formation in Cast Stone. Secondary gypsum formation was observed with low concentration simulants, and the formation of gypsum was suppressed in high concentration simulants. A threshold concentration for the drastic change in stiffening was found at 1.56 M Na concentration. It was found that the stiffening of Cast Stone was strongly dependent on the concentration of simulant.