A local laboratory here has four bottles of thorium and uranium salts they’d like to get rid of.  Looking into it, I found it was going to cost close to $4000 to transport and dispose of less than a pound of material at a facility in Houston; this is the only facility I can find that will accept this material.  These are not RCRA hazardous, and the radioactivity has to be extremely low.  The DOT numbers are 2909 and 2910; there doesn’t appear to be any difficulty shipping them. 

 

My question is – what are other labs doing to dispose of this type of material?  Is it possible to encase them in concrete or another inert material and dispose in a municipal system?  Is there anyone recycling these salts?  Any ideas?

 

Thanks̷ 0;.

 

Russ Phifer

 

Russ Phifer

WC Environmental, LLC

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West Chester, PA  19380

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