The result is that the tanks now hold a mixture of sludges, salts and liquids.
Detergent-dispersant additives, for instance, suspend sludges and remove them from the sliding surfaces of internal-combustion engines.
Significant quantities of mercury have been reclaimed from dental amalgams, oxide and acetate sludges, and battery scrap.
Sometimes, however, lead residues, sludges, or flue dusts are mixed with oxides from the battery treatment plant and processed together.
It could be an alternative for another form of waste now planned for Yucca, sludges in tanks at the Hanford and Savannah River nuclear reservations.
Hazardous wastes can take the form of solids, liquids, sludges, or contained gases, and they are generated primarily by chemical production, manufacturing, and other industrial activities.
The office has begun building a factory that would take the most highly radioactive liquids and sludges from decaying storage tanks and solidify them in glass.
Unlike the wastes from civilian reactors, the military wastes are liquids and sludges stored in underground tanks in environmentally sensitive areas.
"For most of this century most microbiologists have thought that the majority of bacteria in mud, soil, sediments and sludges, be they dead or moribund, were out of the picture for all practical purposes," he wrote.
Sewage sludges SS-DE, SS-DK n.a.a
Flocculation markedly enhanced the settleability of both sludges.
