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Koyama, Tomozo; ; Omori, Eiichi; ; ; Shibata, Atsuhiro; Shigetome, Yoshiaki
JNC TN8410 99-027, 423 Pages, 1999/12
The bituminization demonstration facility of Tokai Reprocessig Plant had a fire and explosion incident. The cause of the incident was investigated. Also, the facility condition and release of radioactive materials were evaluated. The cause of the fire and subsequent explosion was determined in a two year investigation. The main cause of the fire was that the temperature of the bituminized product rose to an unusually high temperature by a physical heating phenomena inside the extruder, which was caused by the lowering the feed rate of liquid waste. A moderate chemical reaction in the bituminized product continued and consequently the bituminized product overheated and ignited. The cause of the explosion was the accumulation of flammable gases generated from insufficiently extinguished bituminized product in the filling room in which the ventilation system had been shut down. The flammable gas was ignited by another bituminized product that overheated to the flash point temperature. This report details the condition of the facility before and after the incident, cause of the incident, and an evaluated amount of released radioactive materials.
Miura, Akihiko;
JNC TN8410 99-046, 35 Pages, 1999/10
Judging from several evidences which are operators' testimony, observation result, and so on, the "Committee for an Investigation into the Fire and Explosion Incident at the BDF of the Reprocessing plant of Tokai Works" concluded another fire incident occurred in the filling room (R152) after the explosion (hereafter called second fire incident). This report explains the simulation result of second fire incident. Calculated air temperature and radiation intensity are used another calculations that indicate the thermal influence from the fire name to the extruder or neighboring drums. About second fire incident, calculated result indicates first fire occurred from the No.30104 drum that was produced in 30B or several drums including No.30104 drum. It is estimated that temperature and thermal runaway reaction was not due to fire of neighboring drum because the drum doesn't receive large influence thermally by radiation from the neighboring fire name. Each result suggests the all burnt 29B and 30B drums were filled at higher temperature than usual.
; Aoyama, Makoto; ; Yamanouchi, Takamichi
PNC TN8410 97-319, 143 Pages, 1997/10
The fire and explosion incident occurred at Bituminization Demonstration Facility of PNC Tokai Works on March 11, 1997. In order to ascertain the cause of incident, the investigation has been pushed forward. During investigation, we obtained essential information from operators, such as softness of bituminized product, white smoke generated from bituminized product. This condition has never been observed comparing past normal operation. Therefore, we assumed that temperature of bituminized product had increased more than expected. In order to confirm above assumption, we made experiment for obtaining the relationship between temperature and fluidity of bituminized product. Simulated bituminized product was heated up to each temperature (210, 230, 250, 270
C) in a pot and poured down into an another pot. We observed the fluidity of bituminized product when it flowing down into a pot. The fluidity of bituminized product increased with high temperature. The fluidity of bituminized product at 270C looked similar to fluidity of bituminized product that had ignited itself at the incident. White smoke generated from bituminized product and amounts of white smoke increased with high temperature. The smoke was considered to be gas that generated through thermal decomposition or volatilization of bitumen.
