The scientist behind this work is Fluid Tech's Chief Technology Officer. Mark S. Denton authored this paper while at RWE NUKEM Corporation (the affiliation printed on the paper), before joining Fluid Tech. It is part of the published record behind Fluid Tech's ion-specific media and waste-stabilization approach. The summary below is for reference only; full details are in the cited paper. See Dr. Denton's full publication timeline →
01 Overview
Specialty ion-specific media were examined and developed not only for pre- and post-outage wastestreams but also for very difficult outage wastestreams. The work progressed from surrogate wastestreams, to laboratory samples of actual wastestreams, and finally to actual on-site wastestreams, with a particular focus on PWR streams.
Summary written from the published abstract. It reproduces no proprietary data, methods, or results.
02 Why it matters
- Surrogate, sample, site: the three-stage validation ladder that separates a product claim from a proven result.
- Earliest ion-specific media paper in this library: the start of the published ISM line that leads to the 2011 Hanford WTP paper.
- PWR focus: directly relevant to the majority of the US commercial fleet.
03 Citation
Mark S. Denton, James Wilson, Matthew Ahrendt (RWE NUKEM); William D. Bostick (MCL); Frank DeSilva, Peter Meyers (ResinTech). New Innovations in Highly Ion Specific Media for Recalcitrant Wastestream Radioisotopes. WM2006 Conference, February 26 – March 2, 2006, Tucson, AZ (Session 10, Nuclear Power Plant Liquid and Wet Waste).
04 Related
Publication, testing, or permitting by a government laboratory, contractor, or agency does not constitute endorsement of any commercial product.