Fingal

FINGAL [Fixation in Glass of Active Liquors] A batch process for immobilizing nuclear waste in a borosilicate glass. Developed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority from 1958 and piloted at its Windscale Works 1962-1966. After a lapse of several years, the project was resumed in 1972 under the acronym HARVEST. 

HARVEST [Highly Active Residue Vitrification Experimental Studies] A process for immobilizing nuclear waste by incorporation in a borosilicate glass. Developed from FINGAL. Piloted by the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Sellafield in the late 1970s, but abandoned in 1981 in favor of the French vitrification process AVM. 

Process and equipment development will continue at Harwell with a concentrated effort on a modification of the FINGAL Process called HARVEST which features an annular calcining and vitrification unit. 

Brown N, McKay B, Gasteiger J. Fingal A novel approach to geometric fingerprinting and a comparative study of its application to 3D-QSAR modelling. QSAR Comb Sci 2005 24 480 1. 

Brown, N., McKay, B. and Gasteiger, J. (2005) Fingal a novel approach to geometric fingerprinting and a... 

J.M.W. Turner Staffa, Fingal s Cave (1832) (repr. from Rodner 1997, plate 4). 

ITie British HARVEST process. Another vitrification process is the HARVEST process (C3, M3], an improved version of the former FINGAL process. It is a pot process or, in the categories of this chapter, a liquid-feed/in-can melting process. A full-scale, fully radioactive plant is scheduled to be in operation at the Windscale site in 1986. 

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