Annual report for FY2021 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

JAEA-Review 2023-001, 136 Pages, 2023/06

JAEA-Review-2023-001.pdf:10.65MB

This report describes the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (DDWM) in Nuclear Science Research Institute (NSRI) in the period from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The report covers organization and missions of DDWM, outline and operation/maintenance of facilities which belong to DDWM, treatment and management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning activities, and related research and development activities which were conducted in DDWM. In FY2021 radioactive wastes generated from R&D activities in NSRI were treated safely. They were about 206 m of combustible solid wastes and 155 m of noncombustible solid wastes and 113 m of liquid wastes. After adequate treatment, 760 waste packages (in 200 L-drum equivalent) were generated. The total amounts of accumulated waste packages were 126,827 as of the end of FY2021 due to efforts of the restitution of waste packages to the Japan Radioisotope Association and volume reduction treatments of the stored waste packages. Decommissioning activities were carried out for the JAEA's Reprocessing Test Facility (JRTF), the Liquid Waste Treatment Facilities, the Compaction Facilities, and Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) facilities. As for the R&D activities, studies on radiochemical analyses of wastes for disposal were continued. In order to pass the conformity review on the New Regulatory Requirements for waste management facilities, the Approval of the design and construction method was applied sequentially for the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The ministry of the Environment and Tokai-mura office requested JAEA to dispose of the contaminated soil generated by the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The monitoring work at the playground was conducted during this period.

Annual report for FY2017 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

JAEA-Review 2019-011, 91 Pages, 2019/10

JAEA-Review-2019-011.pdf:5.25MB

This report describes the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (DDWM) in Nuclear Science Research Institute (NSRI) in the period from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018. The report covers organization and missions of DDWM, outline and operation/maintenance of facilities which belong to DDWM, treatment and management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning activities, and related research and development activities which were conducted in DDWM.

Annual report for FY2016 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

JAEA-Review 2018-008, 87 Pages, 2018/07

JAEA-Review-2018-008.pdf:2.67MB

This report describes the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (DDWM) in Nuclear Science Research Institute (NSRI) in the period from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. The report covers organization and missions of DDWM, outline and operation/maintenance of facilities which belong to DDWM, treatment and management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning activities, and related research and development activities which were conducted in DDWM.

Annual report for FY2014 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

JAEA-Review 2015-036, 87 Pages, 2016/03

JAEA-Review-2015-036.pdf:4.02MB

This report describes the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (DDWM) in Nuclear Science Research Institute (NSRI) in the period from April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. The report covers organization and missions of DDWM, outline and operation/maintenance of facilities which belong to DDWM, treatment and management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning activities, and related research and development activities which were conducted in DDWM.

Annual report for FY2013 on the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management

JAEA-Review 2015-004, 90 Pages, 2015/03

JAEA-Review-2015-004.pdf:17.29MB

This report describes the activities of Department of Decommissioning and Waste Management (DDWM) in Nuclear Science Research Institute (NSRI) in the period from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. The report covers organization and missions of DDWM, outline and operation/maintenance of facilities which belong to DDWM, treatment and management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning activities, and related research and development activities which were conducted in DDWM.

Validation of minor actinide cross sections by studying samples irradiated for 492 days at the dounreay prototype fast reactor, 1; Radiochemical analysis

Shinohara, Nobuo; Kono, Nobuaki; Nakahara, Yoshinori; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi; Sakurai, Takeshi; Mukaiyama, Takehiko*; Raman, S.*

Nuclear Science and Engineering, 144(2), p.115 - 128, 2003/06

https://doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2347

no abstracts in English

Development of an ultra compact device using liquid electrode plasma for radioactive element analysis

Do, V. K.; Yamamoto, Masahiko; Taguchi, Shigeo; Kuno, Takehiko; Surugaya, Naoki; Takamura, Yuzuru*

no journal, , 

Commercial ICP AES is often applied for analysis of radioactive nuclides present in the waste stream. However, the instrument is bulky with auxiliary equipment. Consequently, it is difficult to maintain or replace those instruments in a shielded cell or a glove box. A novel liquid electrode plasma (LEP) would be a suitable option instead of ICP. LEP is compact to be easily installed, maintained and operated in a shielded cell or a glove box because the method does not require plasma gas, a nebulizer or large power supply. LEP allows only L-level waste emission due to the use of microchannel. In the study, we utilized LEP as an excitation source for analysis of radioactive nuclides. The newly installed instrument was characterized by determining cesium and strontium in a highly active waste simulated sample. The obtained result is promising for further application of LEP in the field of radiochemical analysis.