Annual report for FY2019 on activities of decommissioning and radioactive waste management
Sector of Nuclear Fuel, Decommissioning and Waste Management Technology Development
This annual report summarizes the activities of decommissioning and radioactive waste management in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in the period from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020. To reduce a risk of storage of high-level radioactive liquid waste, vitrification has started but the annual plan has not achieved by malfunction of glass melting furnace at Tokai Vitrification Facility of Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP) of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories (NCL). Decommissioning activities were carried out according to the annual plan. As technology development pertaining to process of radioactive wastes, activities were carried out according to the annual plan. In NCL, technology of immobilization for radioactive waste has been developed to keep the safety. In Ningyo-toge Environmental Engineering Center, a uranium measurement technology, environmental research and decontamination technology has been developed for uranium waste management.