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

The process to vitrify waste at Hanford is highly complex and involves multiple steps.

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

In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James