Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS), developed the commercially available DeHg process for the low-temperature treatment of mercury-contaminated hazardous and mixed wastes. The technology uses a proprietary amalgamation process to convert mercury into a nonhazardous solid. The technology is now offered by Advanced Recovery Systems, Inc. The developer claims the technology can be used on sludges, hazardous and mixed wastes, and mercury-contaminated wastes containing tritium. 

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Figure 10.6 Horizontal section of aimular dissolver used in Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., plant.

To simulate recovery of uranium and thorium from irradiated 6 percent uranium, 94 percent thorium fuel from the first loading of Consolidated Edison Company s Indian Point 1 nuclear power plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [R3] made small-scale experiments on application of the acid Thorex process to fuel containing the appropriate amounts of uranium and thorium, with tracer quantities of the principal fission products. Spent uranium-thorium fuel from the Indian Point 1 plant was subsequently processed by Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., at West Valley, New York, for recovery of uranium, but without separation of thorium from fission products. No account of this separation has been published. 

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