说明ERDA-75-10696 Office of Public Affairs Photo Office SOLIDIFIED RADIOACTIVE WASTE Highly insoluble rock-like material containing solidified radioactive waste from the underground waste tanks at the Energy Research and Development Administration's Hanford site has been produced in an Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company laboratory. The rock-like product is shown held by a manipulator in a hot ceil. Ingredients of the rock product are radioactive salt cake waste from the Hanford waste storage ranks iron oxide, silicon and sand, combined exothermically at temperatures over 2,000 degrees C. to form a glassy rock like material in which radioactive waste products are trauma This rock-like product is an insoluble as glass. Photo by Battelle - Northwest Laboratory
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