Development of Glass Melter for the PNC Tokai Vitrfication Facility

not registered; Sasaki, Noriaki; not registered; Tsunoda, Naomi

The development of the glass melter which will be used in the HLLW vitrification facility has been performed since 1977. The design and operational experiences has been accumulated through the process tests in the cold engineering facilities. The results obtained in these periods have been considered in the design of the Tokai vitrification Facility (TVF), the construction of which has already been started in the spring of 1988. The present PNC melter system includes several features as the result of PNC's own improvements and modifications. The results of the melter development will be described in this paper mainly on the special features which are developed in PNC, such as glass fiber additives, induction-heated bottom drain nozzle and remote handling technique. The mock-up test using the new mock up melter which was constructed following the TVF final design has started to verify the process performance.