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Suguro, Toshiyasu; Nishikawa, Yoshiaki*; Watahiki, Takashi*; Kagawa, Akio
JAEA-Technology 2013-023, 22 Pages, 2013/10
For safety assessment of TRU waste disposal, solubility of plutonium was investigated under hardened cement paste porewater condition. Polycarboxylic acid compound, which have the possibility to be used for the TRU waste disposal, was selected as the cement admixture for the experiment. Initial concentration of Pu was 10 M in the experiment. The porewater of hardened cement paste was obtained by squeezing out the kneading of ordinary portland cement and deionized water with the cement admixture. The porewater of hardened cement paste without cement admixture is also used for the experiment. The maximum experimental period was 154 days. The experiment was carried out at room temperature (298 5 K) under argon atmosphere, in which oxygen concentration was lower than 1 ppm. Pu concentration in the porewater of hardened cement paste with or without the cement admixture were in the order of 10 mol/dm after 154 days. This value is comparable to the solubility of Pu(IV) under high pH condition, suggesting that the solubility of Pu was not affected by the cement admixture in hardened cement paste.
Suguro, Toshiyasu; Nishikawa, Yoshiaki*; Watahiki, Takashi*; Kagawa, Akio; Iijima, Kazuki
JAEA-Technology 2010-048, 32 Pages, 2011/03
Cementitious materials are considered to be necessary for the construction of TRU waste repository. The cement additives are used for cements and concretes in order to provide their fluidity. Many kinds of cement additives contain organic compounds which may increase radionuclide solubility by complex formation. Therefore, it is important to obtain the solubility data with cement additives for safety assessment of TRU waste disposal. In this work, two types of cement additives, such as sodium formaldehyde acid polymer and poly carboxylic acid polymer which are expected to be applied to the TRU waste disposal system, are selected. Since the chemical condition of the repository is considered to be reducing, the authors carried out batch-type experiments of plutonium solubility under reducing (NaSO added as reducant) and anoxic condition ([O] 1 ppm). Other experimental conditions are (1)initial plutonium concentration; 10 M, (2) temperature; 2985 K, (3)experimental period; 7, 14, 28 and 56 days and (4) molecular weight of cement additives; without fractionation 5,000 and 5,000. The plutonium concentration in the absence of the cement additives was in the order of 10 mol dm, while, those in the presence of cement additives were two or three orders of magnitude higher. Additionally, low molecular weight fraction of cement additives brought relatively higher plutonium concentration than high molecular weight fraction.
Suguro, Toshiyasu; Kagawa, Akio; Nishikawa, Yoshiaki*; Watahiki, Takashi*; Mihara, Morihiro; Iijima, Kazuki
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