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Development of chemical decontamination method for old Waste Treatment Facility

Fukuda, Seiji; Kondo, Hitoshi; Okubo, Toshiyuki

The Old Waste Treatment Facility of JOYO(0ld JWTF), operation of which stopped in 1995, is scheduled to be dismantled starting in 2010. In order to reduce worker's radiation exposure, it is necessary to reduce radiation dose rate of the main equipments by system chemical decontamination before dismantling. In thjs research, the decontamination solutions were selected in view of reduction of consequential waste amount and expense of treatment of decontamination waste. We evaluated decontamination factor (DF) in test with contaminated samples (Hot test). Moreover we performed a conceptual design of the decontamination system using the decontamination solution that obtained the highest DF in hot test. The solution selected in hot test did not achieve the target DF to all equipments. For some equipment more aggressive solutions, which dissolve contaminants and base metal, would be needed, however using these solutions would tend to increase consequential waste amount and expense of treatment of decontamination waste. Therefore, we evaluated the dissolution rate of these solutions for stainless steels in test with non-contaminated samples (Cold test). The main result of obtaining through the hot test and the cold test is shown below.(1)By alternating immersions in sodium hydroxide solution and nitric acid, the highest DF was obtained. (Maximum of DF=10.7, 80 deg-C). (2)The decontamination system is composed of two decontamination solution tanks, a washing water tank, a pump that supplies decontamination solutions and washing water, and filters for removing contaminants. (3)The test samples were immersed in various solutions (HN03 + HF, HCl, H2S04) for 24 hours at room temperature. As a result, it was confirmed that the dissolution rate of HN03 + HF is remarkably large compared with other solutions (7.43 micro-m/day).

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