Feasibility study on a long-life vitrification melter

Yamashita, Teruo ; Miura, Akihiko ; Kato, Junya; Shiotsuki, Masao; Ono, Isamu*; Fukui, Toshiki*; Yamasaki, Akito*; Matsumoto, Shiro*

The objective of this development is to extend vitrification melter life-time to reduce burden of the high level radioactive waste management by applying advanced technologies. The candidate concepts of the long-life melter were studied with evaluation of adopted important advanced technologies such as skull layer conditions and the commutative electrode structure. It was concluded that such technology has a potential to extend melter life as 20 years even in the preliminary studies. Based on the obtained results, after the following fiscal year, evaluation of each component, small scale melter examination, and development and evaluation of simulation tool are carried out.