Design, construction and monitoring of temporary storage facilities for removed contaminants

Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Funaki, Hironori ; Kurikami, Hiroshi  ; Sakamoto, Yoshiaki ; Tokizawa, Takayuki

Since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident caused by the Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake, decontamination work has been conducted. Decontamination wastes including removed soil, grass and trees are to be stored safely at temporary storage facilities for up to three years, after which they will be transferred to a planned interim storage facility. The decontamination pilot project was carried out in both the restricted and planned evacuation areas in order to assess decontamination methods and demonstrate measures for radiation protection of workers. Temporary storage facilities of different technical specifications were designed and constructed under various topographic conditions and land-use. In order to support designing, constructing and monitoring of temporary storage facilities for decontamination wastes during the full-scale decontamination, technical know-how obtained during the decontamination pilot project has been identified and summarized in this paper.