Hydrogen Gas Control Inside Anaerobic Transport Packaging

Former defense production and waste processing has produced approximately 353,000 m3 of complex radioactive waste. The majority of this waste is currently being stored in underground storage tanks (UST) at two locations, the Hanford Site, and the Savannah River Site (Cruse et al. 1992). The current plan for the remediation of these wastes involves characterization, pretreatment and bench scale testing (Straalund et al. 1992, Morford and Bridges 1993, and Barker et al. 1993). All three of these remediation processes require that the waste be transported, and in some cases, this involves off-site shipment of type-B quantities of radioactive liquid waste.