Evaluation of Co inventory in the core of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Contribution of fuel deposits to the reactor core inventory

Uchida, Shunsuke*; Kino, Chiaki*; Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Takahatake, Yoko  ; Koma, Yoshikazu  

Evaluation of radioactive nuclide behavior on and after the accident is important for the estimating radioactive nuclide composition in the wastes. The reactor core inventories have been obtained from the ORIGEN2 analysis, but the inventory of activation products is determined by the amount of their parent nuclides which are impurities contained in the structural materials. The ORIGEN2 does not treat fuel deposits including the impurities. Estimation of the initial Co-60 inventory in accurate is needed on the evaluation of some kinds of radioactive nuclide amount, since it is possible Co-60 is standard in the scaling factor. In this study, contribution of fuel deposits to the reactor core inventory was estimated by comparing the amount of Co-60 and Ni-63 calculated by the amounts of deposition by the microlayer-evaporation and drying-out model (MEDO model) and the result of the ORIGEN2 analysis, and then the method of estimating the reactor core inventory was proposed.