Current status of decommissioning activities at Ningyo-toge Environmental Engineering Center

Ishimori, Yuu  

This paper illustrates the current status of decommissioning activities at four facilities in the Ningyo-toge Environmental Engineering Center of Japan Atomic Energy Agency. (1) The Test milling facility was dismantled from 1999 to 2002. The dismantled materials are stored, and surveyed to determine the quantities of contaminants in the Dismantled materials storage facility. (2) Major equipment at the Refining and conversion facility was dismantled and removed from 2008 to 2013. About 530 t of dismantled materials were generated. Measures of other materials and equipment are taken for easier area managements. (3) A part of centrifuges in the Enrichment engineering facility was decontaminated with 5% of dilute sulfuric acid, and some of them were reused after clearance. Major equipment except centrifuges at the facility has been dismantled and removed since 2014. Dismantling activity will end in 2022. So far, about 270 t of dismantled materials were generated. (4) Centrifuges in the Uranium enrichment demonstration plant have been flushed by gas since 2002 before dismantling. Decontamination efficiencies for DOP-1 and for DOP-2 were about 91% and 99%, respectively. Further plans for dismantling of centrifuges are under review. (5) Related techniques such as measurements are also explained.