First selection of the LLFP iodine compound by the literature on this subject

Donomae, Takako  ; not registered ; Onose, Shoji ; Miyakawa, Shunichi; Nakamura, Yasuo

The Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) for radionuclides included in high level has been researched in many countries. This technology for the radionuclides consists of partitioning them to several groups according to their half-lives and purposes of utilization and transmutating minor actinides (MA) and long lived fission products (LLFP) to short lived or stable nuclides. Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) made a plan to develop this technology in the Feasibility Study for Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycle (FS), in cooperation with basic research groups. The main objective of JNC is to transmutate MA and LLFP in fast reactor. And this research was planned to carry out, taking into account not only reduction of environmnental burden and nuclear non-proliferation but also technical realization and economics. As a part of the research, the development of the elements for irradiation tests has just stated. According to the gained results of FS. The LLFPs, which have a possibility to realize the transmutation from the view point of nuclear physics, are I and Tc. Therefore, it was tried to select iodine chemical compounds fitted for transmutation by means of literature survey, because the half-life of I is long and the effect of radiation is comparatively hard. The literature survey was performed from the viewpoint of five properties, that is, nuclear physics, thermal phase change, chemical stability, fabrication, applicability to cycle use. As a result, 8 chemical compounds, namely, MgI, KI, NiI, CuI, RbI, YI, MoI, BaI were selected as target materials from 32 candidates.