The company is currently working to develop a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor, a reactor that converts high-level nuclear waste into clean, carbon-free electric power that eliminates the awful waste generated by most nuclear reactors.
In the 1990's, the Energy Department planned to mix the waste with molten glass, but in an experiment the test material ate through the piping.
The treatment plant now under construction is to mix the radioactive waste with molten glass, which would turn it into a solid that could not spill and would be very difficult to break down, even over millenniums.
Molten fly-ash from waste incineration was selected as an analyte to confirm the analytical method presented in this study.
Using the pressurized hot water extraction technique, benzoic acid and phthalic anhydride were selectively removed from solid petrochemical wastes (called molten phthalic anhydride).
Phthalic anhydride, benzoic acid and maleic acid were selectively removed from solid petrochemical wastes (called molten phthalic anhydride) using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction technique.
To address this issue, dry slag granulation (DSG) technology has been proposed to recover the waste heat from molten slag.
Another design, by two MIT researchers, again uses waste, mixed into molten salt.
The high-level waste was mixed with molten glass to keep it chemically locked up for millennia, and the lower-level material was mixed with a kind of cement that is supposed to keep it in place until the radioactivity dies down.
In order to recover the waste heat produced in molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs), a new hybrid system mainly consisting of an MCFC, a thermoelectric generator, and a thermoelectric cooler is integrated for performance enhancement.
