摘要:
Chemical warfare agents are destroyed when chemically reacted with nitrogenous base, optionally containing solvated electrons which are conveniently produced by dissolving an active metal like sodium in a nitrogenous base such as anhydrous liquid ammonia. A reactor system (10) used to carry out the process comprises reaction vessel (20) adapted to receive either nitrogenous base or a solution of solvated electrons from solvator (30) and CWA from storage vessel (40). The reactor system also incorporates condenser (50) for treating gas evolved from the reaction vessel (20), decanter (60) for receiving slurried reaction products from the reaction vessel and separate the reaction products into a liquid fraction and a solid fraction, dissolver (70) for contacting the solid fraction with water to produce a fluid mixture and oxidizer (80) for oxidizing the fluid mixture.
摘要:
Soil including sand and clays contaminated with nuclear waste materials and/or ions of hazardous non-radioactive metals or metalloids are decontaminated by treating with anhydrous liquid ammonia alone or in combination with solvated electrons. Methods include removing ions of hazardous metals or metalloids by mixing with ammoniacal solutions to provide an ammoniacal liquid-containing product with coordination complexes. Methods also comprise concentrating contaminants, such as plutonium, uranium and thorium, for example, in the fines of soil and clay to yield residual soil products which are sufficiently free of contaminants to allow reclamation. Economics are improved over aqueous systems since ammonia canbe recovered and recycled. By concentrating nuclear and non-nuclear wastes in soil fines space requirements ordinarily needed for storage of untreated soil and handling costs can be significantly reduced.