Process of preparing substantially solid waste containing radioactive or toxic substances for safe, non-pollutive handling, transportation and permanent storage

US4131563A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Steag Kernenergie GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Bahr · Speyer, DE
• Stefan Drobnik
• Werner Hild · Deggendorf, DE
• Reinhard Kroebel · Gondelsheim, DE
• Alfred Meyer · Basel, CH
• Gunter Naumann

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 1976
• Grant date: Dec 26, 1978
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G21F9/307
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process of preparing substantially solid wastes containing radioactive or toxic substances for safe, non-pollutive handling, transportation and permanent storage, wherein the wastes are mixed with polymerizable mixtures consisting essentially of monovinyl and polyvinyl compounds and polymerization catalysts, and are converted by polymerization into solid blocks.