Consideration of radiolytic behavior in diluted and concentrated systems of seawater for computational simulation of hydrogen generation

水素発生の放射線分解解析のための海水の希釈及び濃厚系での放射線分解挙動に関する考察

永石 隆二 ; 井上 将男; 日野 竜太郎; 小川 徹

Nagaishi, Ryuji; Inoue, Masao; Hino, Ryutaro; Ogawa, Toru

福島第一原子力発電所事故では破損した原子炉施設の冷却のために海水を使ったため、スリーマイル島原子力発電所の冷却水喪失事故とは異なり、事故後に発生した汚染水に海水成分が含まれた。これに伴い、腐食や水素発生と密接に関係する、海水の放射線分解の反応計算がいくつかのグループによって行われたが、それらは1次収量や放射線誘起反応の塩濃度依存性(塩効果)を考慮していないため、広範囲の塩濃度に対して適用できない。そこで、本研究では、1次収量の塩効果を示す定常照射実験の結果、並びに反応の塩効果を示すパルス照射実験(パルスラジオリシス)の結果をもとに、海水の希釈及び濃厚系での放射線分解挙動に関する考察を試みた。

Since seawater has been used as a coolant for reactors and spent fuel pools in broken reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi NPS accident, radioactive contaminated water emitted following the accident has contained salt content of seawater at high concentrations, different from that at TMI-2 accident. Radiolysis of seawater leading to hydrogen generation and corrosion has been simulated and reported by several groups. However, the proposed radiolysis models cannot be always applied to water radiolysis at the wide range of salt concentrations present in the NPS, mainly because primary yields of radiolysis products of water and radiation-induced reactions are dependent on the salt concentration. In this study, the radiolytic behavior in diluted and concentrated systems of seawater was considered on the basis of results in steady state and pulse radiolysis experiments, in which the above salt effects were demonstrated from the obtained results.