核燃料物質で汚染された湿式回収設備を中心としたグローブボックス群解体撤去作業の実績

Experiences in dismantlement of gloveboxes for wet recovery and other use that are contaminated with nuclear fuel materials

北村 哲浩   ; 平野 宏志*; 吉田 将冬; 武内 健太郎 

Kitamura, Akihiro; Hirano, Hiroshi*; Yoshida, Masato; Takeuchi, Kentaro

現在原子力機構核燃料サイクル工学研究所プルトニウム燃料技術開発センターのプルトニウム燃料第二開発室は廃止措置に移行しており、約20年前から不稼働グローブボックスの解体撤去進めている。本稿ではこの20年の間に進めてきた解体撤去作業の実績について解説する。また、この過程で経験したいくつかの不具合事象やトラブルの概要を示すとともに、それらにどのように対応してきたかを紹介する。さらに解体作業中の被ばく管理の具体的な内容を示し、作業者の放射線管理について概観する。

The alpha contaminated gloveboxes have been dismantled for over 20 years in Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility. The so called wet recovery equipment gloveboxes, which recover plutonium and uranium from scrap fuel by dissolving and extracting processes, were chosen as the priority gloveboxes to be dismantled. These gloveboxes and other gloveboxes in the same room were size reduced and removed up until 2022. Also, non-radioactive ancillary facility and non-radioactive giant glovebox were removed from 2007 to 2010 for ease of glovebox dismantling activities that follows and for making waste storage spaces. Several incidents were occurred and recidivism prevention measures were implemented on each occasion. In this report, glovebox dismantling activities we conducted in the past 20 years are reviewed and lessons we have learned are summarized.