Reprocessing plants Karlsruhe

Fig. 3.4. Deposit of 129I in soil near Karlsruhe Reprocessing Plant as fraction of total emission. Curve is theoretical with vg = 3 mm s-1.

In the sixties hydrazine stabilized U(IV) solutions, electrochemically produced, successfully substituted the traditional corrosive and salt generating ferrous sulfamate C5) reducing agent for the U/Pu separation (e.g. Eurochemic in Mol, Karlsruhe Reprocessing Plant WAK). 

Wiederaufarbeitungsanlage Karlsruhe (reprocessing plant Karlsruhe). No effort was made to recover uranium effectively. 

Wilhelm, J.G. and J. Furrer. 1977. Head-end iodine removal from a reprocessing plant with a solid sorbent, laboratory of aerosolphys and filter technology, Ges. Kemforsch. MbH. Proceedings of the ERDA Air Cleaning Conference 14, No. 1 447-77. Karlsruhe, Germany. 

At some locations smaller volumes of HLLW are present, for instance at the pilot reprocessing plant at Karlsruhe, Germany. For these cases it might be not economic to have a vitrification facility on site. Alternative solidification processes may be envisaged or transportation of HLLW to other... 

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