DOE's Tanks Focus Area (TFA) develops technologies to safely and efficiently remediate radioactive waste stored in underground tanks at four sites nationwide.  This work is done by leveraging resources and working with a broad team of experts from industry, national laboratories, government contractors, universities, stakeholders, and U.S. Department of Energy.

Point of Contact: Kurt Gerdes, DOE Program Manager Phone: (301) 903-7289 Fax: (301) 903-1530 Email: Kurt.Gerdes@em.doe.gov
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2 0 0 2 Project Title Principal Investigator/Institute Statement of Work Russian Chemical Decontamination of Tanks (Phase 3b) R. Lubstev / V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, St. Petersburg 178K PDF Evaluation of Russian Induction-Heated Cold-Crucible Melter Technology for DOE High-Level Radioactive Waste Streams V. Starchenko / Designing-Constructing and Industrial-Inculcating Enterprise "Daymos, Ltd." (DC IIE "Daymos, Ltd."), St. Petersburg 182K PDF Evaluation of Russian Induction-Heated Cold-Crucible Melter Technology for DOE Radioactive Waste Streams - Engineering Scale S. Dmitriev / SIA "Radon", Moscow, Russia 184K PDF Testing and Prediction of Long-Term Waste Glass Performance - Russian In-situ Testing I. Sobolev, M. Ojovan / SIA "Radon", Moscow, Russia 189K PDF   2 0 0 1 Project Title Principal Investigator/Institute Statement of Work Russian Chemical Decontamination of Tanks (Phase 3) R. Lubstev / V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, St. Petersburg 144K PDF Evaluation of Russian Induction-Heated Cold-Crucible Melter Technology for DOE High-Level Radioactive Waste Streams V. Starchenko / Designing-Constructing and Industrial-Inculcating Enterprise "Daymos, Ltd." (DC IIE "Daymos, Ltd."), St. Petersburg 140K PDF Evaluation of Russian Induction-Heated Cold-Crucible Melter Technology for DOE Radioactive Waste Streams - Engineering Scale S. Dmitriev / SIA "Radon", Moscow, Russia 149K PDF   2 0 0 0 Project Title Principal Investigator/Institute Statement of Work Sludge Dissolution and Chemical Cleaning of Tanks With The Use of Oxalic Acid and Other Chemicals (Continuation of Phase II) R. Lubstev / V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute 117K PDF   1 9 9 9 Sludge Dissolution and Chemical Cleaning of Tanks With The Use of Oxalic Acid and Other Chemicals (Phase II) R. Lubstev / V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute N/A   1 9 9 8 Project Title Principal Investigator/Institute Statement of Work Sludge Dissolution and Chemical Cleaning of Tanks With The Use of Oxalic Acid and Other Chemicals (Phase I) R. Lubstev/V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute N/A Solid State Transformations of Pu(IV) Hydroxide Precipitates in Alkaline Media N. Krot / Institute of Physical Chemistry N/A Forecast of Phase Composition and Location of Plutonium in Actual Hanford Alkaline Waste A. Fedoseev / Institute of Physical Chemistry N/A   1 9 9 6 - 1 9 9 7 Project Title Principal Investigator/Institute Statement of Work Technology and Apparatus for Solidification of Radwaste by the Method of High Temp Adsorption of Metals on Inorganic Matrices A. Nardova / Institute of Chemical Technology N/A Solid-Liquid Phase Separation of HLW Using U.S. and Russian Technology Y. Revenko / Mining Chemical Association N/A Russian Retrieval Equipment Demo (Stage 2) Y. Revenko / Mining Chemical Association N/A Russian Retrieval Equipment Demo (Stage 1) [Develop & Manufacture of High-Capacity Pulsating Pump] Y. Revenko / Mining Chemical Association N/A U.S./Russian Joint Retrieval Users/Developer Working Group V. Romanovskii / V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute N/A Analysis and Modeling of Sludge Behavior (Radioactive Sludge Storage Modeling) Y. Revenko and E. Zakharova / Institute of Physical Chemistry N/A

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