Recent status of decommissioning on uranium facilities and application of clearance

Daiten, Masaki

Main equipment of the uranium refining and conversion facility had been dismantled from 2008 to 2013. The uranium enrichment pilot plant has been dismantled since 2014. Removal treatment of uranium residue in equipment of the uranium enrichment demonstration plant commenced from 2001. Based on the technological result of uranium removal treatment, removal treatment of uranium from the first operation unit commenced, and it will be completed in FY 2016. Measurement and evaluation of radioactivity concentrations of equipment for clearance level commenced in May 2013. After the radioactivity concentrations were confirmed, and the certificates were issued by Nuclear Regulation Authority, clearance objects were carried out from the uranium facility and aluminum materials were reused for the first time in Japan.