ICONE-8 participation and investigation report of dry process in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA

not registered ; Washiya, Tadahiro ; not registered 

ICONE(International Conference on Nuclear Engineering) is an international conference on nuclear chemical engineering held among the United States, Japan and Europe, and ICONE8 (the 8th time of the conference) was held at Baltimore, USA on April 2 to 6, 2000. The authors of this paper reported the latest information on the reprocessing technology in the following session of the conference and audited the panel discussion and the technical report of the dry reprocessing technology etc. in the conference. (1)Investigation of Safety Evaluation Method and Application to Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP) in session of Track-5 "Non-reactor Safety and Reliability" (Nakamura) (2)Structural Improvement on the continuous rotary dissolver in session of Track-9 "Spent Nuclear Fuel and Waste Processing" (Washiya) (3)Development of Evaporators Made of Ti-5% Ta Alloy and Zr - Endurance Test By Mock-Up unit" in session of Track-2 "Aging and Modeling of Component Aging, Including corrosion of Metals and Welds.. passivation, and passive films" (Takata) At the conference, about 650 people participated from the United States, Japan, France, Canada and others, about700 research announcements, 7 keynote lecture and 8 panel discussion were done, flourishing with many participants. Moreover, as the conference was held in the year of 2000, the evaluation of this century and the direction of the next century of nuclear energy were discussed. After the conference, authors visited Argonne National Laboratory (ANL-E, ANL-W) and exchanged information concerning dry process with researchers of ANL-E and ANL-W, visiting ANL facilities. It was very significant to be able to acquire the information on the dry process developed in ANL and realize the device scale and the development environment, etc. and acquire technical information in detail which would not be able to obtain by engineering data, exchanging information with ANL engineers directly. It is suggested to be very valuable that the ...