Inventory evaluation of high level radioactive vitrified waste

not registered; Makino, Hitoshi ; not registered ; Ishiguro, Katsuhiko; Miyahara, Kaname  ; not registered; not registered

Spent fuel removed from nuclear power plants in Japan is reprocessed at home and abroad (Japan Nuelear Fuel Limited [JNFL] reprocessing plant, Tokai Vitrification Facility [TVF] of JNC, COGEMA in France and BNFL in England) and then vitrified. The properties of vitrified waste change depending on the fuel type, fuel burn-up in the reactor, and operating conditions at the reprocessing Plants. However, properties of vitrified waste, such as heat generation and nuclide inventories, are important information for the design study of repository and the performance assessment in the geological disposal system. For the objectives of repository design and safety assessment, it is necessary that the model-vitrified waste is determined from the four types of waste. In this study, for supporting the determination of the model vitrified waste in the Research and Development for the Geological Disposal of HLW in Japan (H12 Project), the calculation and comparison of inventories for the four types of waste were performed. As results, it is found that there are no significant differences in the properties (i.e., radioactivity, heat generation, hazard index and nuclide inventories per one package) of the four types of vitrified waste from JNFL, COGEMA, BNFL and TVF.