Behavior of carbon-14 in the Tokai reprocessing plant

; ; ; Omori, Eiichi

JNC TN8410 2001-021, 33 Pages, 2001/09

JNC-TN8410-2001-021.pdf:4.37MB

Carbon-14 released from the nuclear facilities is an important radionuclide for the safety assessment, because it tends to accumulate in environment through food chain and has as a significant impact to personal dose. Carbon-14 has been monitored routinely as one of the main gaseous radionuclides exhausted from the Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP) since OCtober of 1991. Furthermore, behavior of carbon-14 in TRP has been investigated through the reprocessing operation and the literature survey. This report describes the result of investigation about the behavior of carbon-14 in TRP as followings. (1)Only a very small amount of carbon-14 in the fuel was liberated into the shear off-gas and most of it was liberated into the dissolver of-gass. Part of the carbon-14 was trapped at the caustic scrubber installed in the of-gas treatment process, and untrapped carbon-14 was released into the environment from the main stack. Amount of carbon-14 released from the main stack was about 4.16.5GBq every ton of uranium reprocessed. (2)Carbon-14 trapped at the caustic scrubbers installed in the dissolver off-gas and in the vessel off-gas treatment process is transferred to the low active waste vessel. Amount of carbon-14 transferred to the low active waste vessel was about 5.4 9.6GBq every ton of uranium reprocessed. (3)The total amount of carbon-14 input to TRP was summed up to about 11.915.5 GBq every ton of uranium reprocessed considering the released amount from the main stack and the trapped amount in the off-gas treatment devices. The amount of nitrogen impurity in the initial fuel was calculated about 1522ppm of uranium metal based on the measured carbon-14. (4)The solution in the low active waste vesselis concentrated at the evaporator.Most of the carbon-14 in the solution was transferred into concentrated solution. (5)Tokai vitrification Demonstration Facility (TVF) started to operate in 1994. Since then, carbon-14 has been measured in the ...

Study about the dissolution behavior of the irradiated fast reactor fuels in CPF

; Koyama, Tomozo; Funasaka, Hideyuki

JNC TN8400 2000-014, 78 Pages, 2000/03

JNC-TN8400-2000-014.pdf:2.13MB

We investigated the factors which affected the dissolution of U and Pu to the nitric acid solution with the fragmentation model, which was based on the results of dissolution experiments for the irradiated fast reactor fuels in the Chemical Processing Facility(CPF). The equation that gave the fuel dissolution rate was estimated with the condition of fabrication (Pu ratio (Pu/(U+Pu))), irradiation (burn-up) and dissolution (nitric acid concentration, solution temperature and U+Pu concentration) by evaluating these effects quantitatively. We also investigated the effects of fuel volume ratio to the solution in the dissolver, burn-up and flouring ratio of the fuel on the f-value (the parameter which shows the diffusion and osmosis of nitric acid to the fuel) in the fragmentation model. It was confirmed that the fuel dissolution rate calculated with this equation had better agreement with the results of dissolution experiments for the irradiated fast reactor fuels in the CPF than that estimated with the surface area model. In addition, the efficiency of this equation was recognized for the dissolution of unirradiated U pellet and high Pu enriched MOX fuel. It was shown that the dissolution rate of the fuel slowed down at the condition of the high U-Pu concentration dissolution by the calculation of the dissolution behavior with this equation. The dissolution of the fuel can be improved by increasing the nitric acid concentration and temperature, but from the viewpoint of lowering the corrosion of the dissolver materials, it is desirable that the f-value is increased by optimizing the condition of shearing and stirring for the improvement of dissolution.

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Kitano, Mitsuaki

PNC TN8600 92-011, 77 Pages, 1992/12

PNC-TN8600-92-011.pdf:3.72MB

no abstracts in English

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PNC TN8410 90-035, 203 Pages, 1989/12

PNC-TN8410-90-035.pdf:3.93MB

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Research and development on preceding processing methods for contaminated water management waste at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 11; Dissolution test of solidified body of cement and Alkali Activated Material

Kaneda, Yoshihisa*; Haga, Kazuko*; Shibata, Masahito*; Osawa, Norihisa*; Kikuchi, Michio*; Yamamoto, Takeshi*; Kawato, Takaya*; Osugi, Takeshi; Sone, Tomoyuki; Kuroki, Ryoichiro

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Solidified cement and alkali activated material blending carbonated slurry were prepared and their dissolution tests were carried out in order to obtain basic data for the low temperature processing of the waste generated by contaminated water treatment at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. An overview of the study and some of the results obtained are reported here.

Establishment of Stirred-Reactor Coupon Analysis (SRCA) method for ASTM standards; Participation report in round robin studies by PNNL

Takahashi, Yuta; Sato, Junya; Sunahara, Jun*; Mitsui, Seiichiro; Joseph, R.*; Osugi, Takeshi

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