vitrify
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DOE’s Savannah River, S.C., site began operating a facility to vitrify less complex radioactive waste in 1996.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
The decision to vitrify the waste in Hanford’s 177 storage tanks goes back to what’s known as the Tri-Party Agreement, a legal agreement and consent order between the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
Last October, the first of two melters used to actually vitrify the waste became active, with the second melter scheduled to launch this spring.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
Initially, the vitrification plant will glassify the least radioactive waste in the tanks, with plans still being made to vitrify the high-level radioactive tank waste.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
If the immense temperature attained in some conflagrations be considered—sufficient to melt iron and vitrify brick—it is possible to conceive of water as being instantly converted into steam.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
“This is iron that was in my studio that, after I fired it, melted and vitrified and became part of the piece.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
So the researchers posit that the only possible scenario is that fast dissipation of the ash cloud allowed for very quick cooling, ensuring that the shards were vitrified before being buried.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
Only material containing some liquid can turn to glass, meaning that the bones could not have vitrified.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
Eventually, vitrified low-activity waste will be disposed of on-site in stainless steel casks, and a separate melter just for high-level waste will come online to manage the most toxic waste.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
The Department of Energy’s goal is to start vitrifying radioactive waste stored in underground tanks, some since World War II, by the end of 2023.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
DOE plans to expand the vitrification plant to treat the remainder of the low-activity waste, but it is also looking at alternatives to vitrifying some of the low-activity waste.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Those lines—the hunger for experience, the resentment vitrifying into potency—could have flown out of “Paradise Lost.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
A very elaborate display of kaolin—plastic, vitrifying, and refractory clays—was made.
From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
Two or three times the electric fluid struck the beach, melting and vitrifying the sand.
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White
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