The Waste Calcining Facility (WCF) located at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory is currently operated by Exxon Nuclear Idaho Company, Incorporated, under contract with the Department of Energy. The plant, built after several years of extensive corrosion studies and pilot-plant experience, became operational in 1963. Since that time approximately 13,337,137 litres (3,523,375 gallons) of liquid nuclear wastes, generated during the reprocessing of spent nulcear fuel materials, have been reduced to dry granular solids. The volume reduction, about seven or eight gallons of liquid waste to one gallon of dry granular solids, provides a significant reduction in the cost of storing the waste material and also provides an added advantage in that the long-term storage of non-corrosive dry granular solids is much preferred to the storage of acidic aqueous liquid wastes.

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Materials, Stainless alloys, Fluorides, Corrosion rate, Nickel based alloys, Zirconium, Vapors, Nitric acid, Solutions, Heat, Monel alloys, Stainless steel, Wastes
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