Earthquake resistance by improvement construction for ground around High Active liquid Waste facility in Tokai Reprocessing Plant

Yokochi, Masaru; Sasaki, Shunichi; Yanagibashi, Futoshi; Asada, Naoki ; Komori, Tsuyoshi; Fujieda, Sadao; Suzuki, Hisanori ; Takeuchi, Kenji ; Uchida, Naoki

Tokai Reprocessing Plant, which is shifted to decommissioning stage, stores large amount of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLLW) generated by reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels in High-level Active Waste facility (HAW). Radioactive risk related to HLLW has been concentrated in HAW until the completion of vitrification. Natural disasters such as earthquake may damage cooling function of HAW. Therefore, HAW must improve earthquake resistance, as exchanging the ground around HAW facility and pipe trench by concrete. This earthquake resistance construction starts from July of 2020 and completed in March 2024. This report summarizes the construction work and describes the inspection results after the construction.