Decontamination and solidification treatment on spent liquid scintillation cocktail

渡部 創; 高畠 容子; 小木 浩通*; 大杉 武史; 谷口 拓海; 佐藤 淳也; 新井 剛*; 梶並 昭彦*

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 585, p.154610_1 - 154610_6, 2023/11

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2023.154610

Treatment of spent scintillation cocktail generated by analysis of radioactivity is one of important tasks for management of nuclear laboratories. This study proposed a procedure consists of adsorption of radioactivity and solidification of residual liquid wastes, and fundamental performance of each step was experimentally tested. Batch-wise adsorption showed excellent adsorption performance of Ni onto silica-based adsorbent, and chelate reaction was suggested as the adsorption mechanism by EXAFS analysis. Alkaline activate material successfully solidified the liquid waste, and TG/DTA and XRD analyses revealed that the organic compounds exist inside the matrix. Only 1% of the loaded organic compounds were leaked from the matrix by a leaching test, and most of the organic compounds should be stably kept inside the matrix.

Treatment of U contaminated waste generated from nuclear fuel fabrication process, 1; Ce(IV) recovery by temperature swing extraction with monoamides

岩本 敏広; 齋藤 まどか*; 高畠 容子; 渡部 創; 渡部 雅之; 成瀬 惇喜*; 塚原 剛彦*

Proceedings of 30th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE30) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2023/05

モノアミド抽出剤と温度応答性ポリマーを用いたゲル化抽出技術のウラン廃棄物処理への適用性の検討を行った。異なる構造を有する3種類のモノアミド抽出剤を用いた模擬溶液の分離試験により、溶液中のCe(IV)をゲル化抽出法により選択的に回収されることが示された。これらの試験結果をもとに、ゲル化抽出法に適したモノアミド抽出剤を選定した。

Structural characterization by X-ray analytical techniques of calcium aluminate cement modified with sodium polyphosphate containing cesium chloride

高畠 容子; 渡部 創; 入澤 啓太; 塩飽 秀啓; 渡部 雅之

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 556, p.153170_1 - 153170_7, 2021/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.153170

The long-time experimental activities on pyroprocessing have generated waste eutectic salts contaminated with nuclear materials. After reprocessing tests, waste salts should be appropriately treated, with a focus on Cl disposal considering its corrosive nature. It is important to construct Cl confinement for the waste salts. Chlorapatite (Ca(PO)Cl) has great potential for Cl confinement due to Ca and P. The chemical reactivity of Cl will be drastically reduced if chlorapatite can be synthesized in calcium aluminate cement modified with sodium polyphosphate (CAP) containing CsCl. This study confirms the chemical state of Cl and metal elements in the cement by XRD, XPS, and XANES in the CAP containing CsCl. The analyses results suggest the existence of the Ca-Cl-Cs and Al-Cl-Cs bonds in CAP containing CsCl. The formation of the chemical bonds of Cl with metal elements might be one of important factors for the chlorapatite formation from the CAP containing CsCl.

STRAD project for systematic treatments of radioactive liquid wastes generated in nuclear facilities

渡部 創; 小木 浩通*; 荒井 陽一; 粟飯原 はるか; 高畠 容子; 柴田 淳広; 野村 和則; 神谷 裕一*; 浅沼 徳子*; 松浦 治明*; et al.

Progress in Nuclear Energy, 117, p.103090_1 - 103090_8, 2019/11

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2019.103090

A new collaborative research project for systematic treatments of radioactive liquid wastes containing various reagents generating in nuclear facilities was started from 2018 initiated by Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The project was named as STRAD (Systematic Treatments of RAdioactive liquid wastes for Decommissioning) project. Tentative targets to be studied under the project are aqueous and organic liquid wastes which have been generated by experiments and analyses in a reprocessing experimental laboratory of JAEA. Currently fundamental studies for treatments of the liquid wastes with complicated compositions are underway. In the STRAD project, process flow for treatment of ammonium ion involved in aqueous waste was designed though the inactive experiments, and decomposition of ammonium ion using catalysis will be carried out soon. Adsorbents for recovery of U and Pu from spent solvent were also developed. Demonstration experiments on genuine spent solvent is under planning.

Investigation of the contamination on the operation floor of unit 2 based on the radiochemical analysis data

高畠 容子; 駒 義和

Proceedings of International Topical Workshop on Fukushima Decommissioning Research (FDR 2019) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2019/05

Radioactive nuclides contaminated F1NPS on the severe accident. It is necessary to discuss about radioactive waste processing and disposal. To investigate contamination process for the waste is important to establish methodologies for their management. Operation floor of unit 2 reactor building was highly contaminated, and boring cores of floor and ceiling were radiochemicaly analyzed. Comparing with distribution of Cs and dose rate indicated the difference of degree of contamination between the floor and ceiling. Contamination with Pu, Am and Cm was higher at the floor above the reactor shield plug, where is considered that the contaminated gas leaked. Degree of contamination of H, Co, Tc, Am and Cm were highest at the point of the opposite side of the blow out panel among several sampling point of the ceiling. From the activity ratio of U to U with samples, the origin of uranium was the damaged fuel.

再処理構造材料の腐食挙動に及ぼすRu化学形態の影響に関する研究

佐野 雄一; 安倍 弘; 高畠 容子

あいちシンクロトロン光センター2017年度公共等利用成果報告書(インターネット), 1 Pages, 2018/00

再処理工程での腐食機構の解明及び腐食抑制方法の提案を目的として、海水成分を含む硝酸溶液中におけるRuの存在形態に共存物質が及ぼす影響について評価を行った。Ruを対象としたXAFS測定の結果、塩化物イオンとの相互作用に起因すると推定されるRu近傍の構造変化が観測され、硝酸溶液中におけるRuの腐食促進作用に何らかの影響を及ぼすことが示唆された。

Micro-PIXE analysis on adsorbent of extraction chromatography for MA(III) recovery

高畠 容子; 渡部 創; 小藤 博英; 竹内 正行; 野村 和則; 佐藤 隆博*

International Journal of PIXE, 26(3&4), p.73 - 83, 2017/09

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129083517500012

次世代再処理ガラス固化技術基盤研究で技術開発を行っている吸着ガラスについて、開発の対象とする抽出クロマトグラフィ技術に用いる吸着材の吸着元素分布情報をマイクロPIXE分析により明らかにすることを検討している。本研究では高レベル放射性廃液の模擬液をカラム法にて吸着並びに吸着/溶離した吸着材を用いて、実使用に即した条件下での吸着材の元素分布情報取得に対するマイクロPIXE技術の適用性評価を行った。検討に供した吸着材はCMPO/SiO-P吸着材及びHDEHP/SiO-P吸着材であり、分析には高崎量子応用研究所のシングルエンド加速器を用いた。分析結果より、カラム内での吸着バンドの形成や溶離後に吸着材に残留する元素の存在を確認できた。これより、マイクロPIXE分析を吸着材性能の定性的な評価に適用することが期待できた。

Particle induced X-ray emission-computed tomography analysis of an adsorbent for extraction chromatography

佐藤 隆博; 横山 彰人; 喜多村 茜; 大久保 猛; 石井 保行; 高畠 容子; 渡部 創; 駒 義和; 加田 渉*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 371, p.419 - 423, 2016/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2015.09.076

The cross-sectional distribution of neodymium (Nd) simulating minor actinides (MA) in a minute globular adsorbent of less than 50 m in diameter was measured using PIXE (particle induced X-ray emission)-CT (computed tomography) with a 3-MeV proton microbeam for the investigation of residual MA in extraction chromatography of spent fast reactor fuel. The measurement area was 100 100 m corresponding to 128 128 pixels of projection images. The adsorbent target was placed on an automatic rotation stage with 9 step. Forty projections of the adsorbent were finally measured, and image reconstruction was carried out by the modified ML-EM (maximum likelihood expectation maximization) method. As a result, the cross-sectional distribution of Nd in the adsorbent was successfully observed, and it was first revealed that Nd remained in the region corresponding to internal cavities of the adsorbent even after an elution process. This fact implies that the internal structure of the adsorbent must be modified for the improvement of the recovery rate of MA.

Basic study on radiation degradation of potassium nickel ferrocyanide

荒井 陽一; 渡部 創; 高畠 容子; 中村 雅弘; 中島 靖雄

Proceedings of 2014 Nuclear Plant Chemistry Conference (NPC 2014) (USB Flash Drive), 8 Pages, 2014/10

放射性廃液からの放射性セシウムの除去は放射性廃棄物低減化に対して有効な手段であることから、その放射性セシウムの選択的除去のためにフェロシアン化物を用いた研究が行われている。フェロシアン化物の廃棄物は水を含んだスラリー状であり、フェロシアン化物の存在により放射線照射による水の分解に起因する水素の生成に影響を与える可能性が考えられる。また、フェロシアン化物は、その構造にシアンを含むことから、分解によりシアンが放出される可能性がある。そこで、水に浸漬させた状態でフェロシアン化ニッケルカリウム(KNiFC)にCoによる線を照射し、水素やシアンの発生量を測定し、KNiFCの放射線分解について調査した。本試験の結果、KNiFCの存在により水素のG値が増大することを確認した。よって、KNiFCを貯槽等で保管する場合には掃気により水素濃度を減少させることが必要である。なお、Csの吸着の有無は水素の発生に影響しないことについても確認した。また、6MGyの照射により、溶液中にシアンが検出されたものの、その生成量は1.3mg/Lと十分に低い濃度であり、ガス化したシアン化水素は検出されなかった。

Strontium decontamination from the contaminated water by titanium oxide adsorption

高畠 容子; 渡部 創; 柴田 淳広; 野村 和則; 伊藤 義之; 駒 義和

Proceedings of International Conference on Toward and Over the Fukushima Daiichi Accident (GLOBAL 2011) (CD-ROM), 5 Pages, 2011/12

A lot of contaminated water which contains many radioactive nuclides has accumulated at the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP of TEPCO, and been decontaminated by the treatment facilities. The READ-Sr absorbent containing titanium is used at the LWTF of JAEA, and its availability to the contaminated water mixed with a seawater was evaluated. Adsorption of Sr with the READ-Sr was fast, and Sr adsorption capacity was unchanged in a batchwise adsorption for a solution containing seawater. The selectivity Sr/Ca was not eminent, although it is suggested that the separation was improved with increasing seawater fraction. Precipitation with flocculation from the simulated water was possible to decontaminate Sr preferentially over Mg and K without any interference with Cs adsorption. It is concluded that the READ-Sr adsorbent can be applied for Sr decontamination from the contaminated water, although its performance of Sr/Ca separation should be improved for minimizing secondary waste of the adsorbent.