Construction, management and operation on advanced volume reduction facilities

Higuchi, Hidekazu; Osugi, Takeshi  ; Nakashio, Nobuyuki; Momma, Toshiyuki ; Tohei, Toshio; Ishikawa, Joji; Iseda, Hirokatsu; Mitsuda, Motoyuki; Ishihara, Keisuke; Sudo, Tomoyuki; Yano, Masaaki; Kato, Mitsugu; Irie, Hirobumi; Yokota, Akira; Takahashi, Kenji; Makino, Masahiro; Ichinosawa, Yoshikazu; Someya, Keita; Kozawa, Kazushige ; Kurosawa, Shigenobu; Hemmi, Ko 

The Advanced Volume Reduction Facilities (AVRF) is constructed to manufacture the waste packages of radioactive waste for disposal in the Nuclear Science Research Institute of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The AVRF is constituted from two facilities. The one is the Waste Size Reduction and Storage Facility (WSRSF) which is for reducing waste size, sorting into each material and storing the waste package. The other is the Waste Volume Reduction Facility (WVRF) which is for manufacturing the waste package by volume reducing treatment and stabilizing treatment. WVRF has an induction melting furnace, a plasma melting furnace, an incinerator, and a super compactor for treatment. In this report, we summarized about the basic concept of constructing AVRF, the constitution of facilities, the specifications of machineries and the state of trial operation until March of 2006.