Data on migration analysis for TRU waste disposal; Results of plutonium solubility experiments in porewater of cement hydrates

Suguro, Toshiyasu; Nishikawa, Yoshiaki*; Watahiki, Takashi*; Kagawa, Akio 

For safety assessment of TRU waste disposal, solubility of plutonium was investigated under hardened cement paste porewater condition. Polycarboxylic acid compound, which have the possibility to be used for the TRU waste disposal, was selected as the cement admixture for the experiment. Initial concentration of Pu was 10 M in the experiment. The porewater of hardened cement paste was obtained by squeezing out the kneading of ordinary portland cement and deionized water with the cement admixture. The porewater of hardened cement paste without cement admixture is also used for the experiment. The maximum experimental period was 154 days. The experiment was carried out at room temperature (298 5 K) under argon atmosphere, in which oxygen concentration was lower than 1 ppm. Pu concentration in the porewater of hardened cement paste with or without the cement admixture were in the order of 10 mol/dm after 154 days. This value is comparable to the solubility of Pu(IV) under high pH condition, suggesting that the solubility of Pu was not affected by the cement admixture in hardened cement paste.