Organic analyses of an actual and simulated mixed waste: Hanford's organic complexant waste revisited

Reanalysis of the organics in a mixed waste, an organic complexant waste from the U. S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site, has yielded an 80.4% accounting of the waste's total organic content. In addition to several complexing and chelating agents (citrate, EDTA, HEDTA and NTA), 38 chelator/complexor fragments have been identified, compared to only 11 in the orginal analysis, all presumably formed via organic degradation. Moreover, a...