CHEMICAL-SEPARATION ACTIVITIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL-MANAGEMENT AT THE -NATIONAL-ENGINEERING-AND-ENVIRONMENTAL-LABORATORY

Besides a brief review of the INEEL, examples of chemical separation a ctivities in environmental management are presented in this paper. Und er development at the INEEL are separation technologies for the treatm ent of radioactive wastes, including highly radioactive liquid wastes, solid calcined wastes and mixed wastes, as well as contaminated groun dwater and soils. An overview of these technologies, specific applicat ions of the technologies, and the benefits from their use are discusse d.