Annual report for FY2008 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

This reports described the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management in Nuclear Science Research Institute in the period from April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009. In this period, 519 m of solid wastes and 314 m of liquid wastes were treated. Then 2,391 waste packages were generated and total accumulated waste packages amounted to 136,971. Development of record keeping system for land burial and design of new management system for mid-level waste packages were conducted. Decommissioning plan for the JAEA's Reprocessing Test Facility (JRFT), the Ceramic Fuel Laboratory, the Plutonium Laboratory No.2, the Metallurgical Laboratory, Isotope Separation Laboratory and Reprocessing Test Laboratory were carried out. Studies were conducted on radiochemical analyses of wastes, JRFT decommissioning technologies and waste volume reduction. The method of nuclide measuring for the clearance was approved. And removing of liquid waste pipeline was started.