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Radioactive tank waste is scheduled for vitrification at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) being constructed at the Hanford Site. Testing of the pilot-scale DuraMelter 1200 at the Vitreous State Laboratory at the Catholic University of America has demonstrated that bubbling increases the melt rate of the batch material, and as a result, melter throughput. Computational fluid dynamics...