Chemical forms and discharge ratios to stack and sea of Tritium from Tokai reprocessing plant

Mikami, Satoshi   ; not registered; not registered; Kozawa, Tomoyasu*; not registered; not registered

Chemical forms and discharge ratios to stack and sea of tritium from Tokai Reprocessing Plant of Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) were investigated by analyzing monitoring data. It was ascertained that approximately 70-80% of tritium discharged from the main stack was tritiated water vapor (HTO) and approximately 20-30% was tritiated hydrogen (HT) as a result of analyzing the data taken from reprocessing campaigns in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001, and also that the amount of tritium released from the stack was less than 1% of tritium inventory in spent fuel and the amount of tritium released into sea was approximately 20-40% of inventory.