TESTING AND CALCULATING A TWO-CHAMBER PLASMA FURNACE
FOR PROCESSING OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES

A. L. Mosse, V. V. Savchin, and V. V. Shilov

UDC 261.039.7:533

A two-chamber plasma furnace has been tested and the advantages 
of the processing of radioactive wastes with the use of plasma-thermal 
technologies have been demonstrated. A model of a plasma furnace for 
processing of low- and medium-activity radioactive wastes formed in 
the process of operation of atomic-power and nuclear-industry plants 
has been developed. The thermal parameters of such a furnace have 
been calculated.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; 
email: mosse@itmo.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-
Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 569-576, May-June, 2008. 
Original article submitted January 25, 2007; revision submitted 
April 12, 2007.