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Zeolite in nuclear waste barrier

March 11, 2010 - 00:00 GMT

KEYWORDS: zeolite , zeolites , clinoptilolite , Bear River Zeolite , waste treatment , nuclear waste

Bear River Zeolite wins contract to supply zeolite for US nuclear waste remediation

West Valley Environmental, a contractor to the US Department of Energy, requires the zeolite for the remediation of radioactive isotopes from the former Western New York Nuclear Service Center (WNYNSC).

Between 1966 and 1972 WNYNSC reprocessed 705 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel and generated 660,430 gallons of “high level nuclear waste” that has in part leaked into the...

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