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Abstract
A remediation methodology for borosilicate Raschig rings contaminated with radioactivity at a Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Facility is demonstrated in which > 99% of the residual radioactive contamination was successfully removed with a combination of nitric acid and ultrasonic agitation. The results obtained from this methodology are directly applicable to other radioactively contaminated Raschig ring waste streams. However, the universal application of the developed methodology is limited to similar historical processing applications of the borosilicate Rasching rings.