A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.

Optical microscopy of salt growth on a glass surface. Ribs at the top left of the image are a very thin film of salt forming on the surface. PULLMAN, Wash. – A new way to identify salts in ...

The formation of salts can be problematic for waste processing and storage. “We were able to demonstrate a technique to see when the salts are forming,” said John Bussey, a WSU undergraduate who is ...

After viewing a model of salt, students help develop models for the processes of salt dissolving, water evaporating to form a gas, and salt re-forming as a crystal. The focus is that matter, whether ...

Mix hydrochloric acid (HCl) with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and you’ll get water (H2O) and table salt (NaCl). Other chemical reactions – and types of reactions – will form salts, but they all end up ...

Method can detect harmful salts forming in nuclear waste melters. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250107114259.htm ...