Examination of exposure management method for the eye lens at Oarai Research and Development Institute

Matsuoka, Amane; Yasumune, Takashi; Kojima, Nobuhiro; Miyauchi, Hideaki; Takasaki, Koji; Hashimoto, Makoto

JAEA-Review 2021-055, 11 Pages, 2021/12

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The dose limit for the eye lens was lowered on April 1 2021, and a 3 mm dose equivalent was added to the calculation. The guidelines require that lens dosimeters be worn and managed when there is a risk of exceeding control standards. In this report, in order to examine future management methods, we investigated whether work that might exceed the equivalent dose limit was performed in the past. As a result of the investigation, the exposure dose for all works after fiscal year 2008 was sufficiently low compared to the equivalent dose limit. For this reason, it is considered that there is no need for additional management of wearing a personal dosimeter near the eyes for the work that is normally performed. In the future, as in the past, the basic management method will be to wear a dosimeter only on the basic part of the trunk under uniform exposure conditions, and to wear a dosimeter on the basic part of the trunk and the maximum dose part under nonuniform exposure conditions. When performing work with a high exposure dose to the eye lens, a dosimeter should be worn near the eye to measure the 3 mm dose equivalent.

Study on release and transport of aerial radioactive materials in reprocessing plant, 6; Cold test (Part 3) Effect of FP concentration in mocked HLLW to ARF

Tashiro, Shinsuke; Matsumoto, Tetsuya; Kataoka, Osamu; Amano, Yuki; Abe, Hitoshi; Yamane, Yuichi; Yoshida, Kazuo; Ishikawa, Jun; Uchiyama, Gunzo; Ueda, Yoshinori*; et al.

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The release behavior of radioactive materials from high-level radioactive liquid wastes (HLW) from reprocessing plants under an accidents of boiling to dryness of HLW condition has been studied. The influences of FP concentration in the simulated HLW on the release ratio of FP from the waste were measured in the laboratory-scaled experiments using non-radioactive simulated HLW which was prepared by dissolving 27 FP elements into nitric acid and adjusted to 2 M acidity. The simulated HLW was heated up to 300C under the constant air ventilation condition. The accumulated release ratios of FP elements from samples were determined using ICP-MS analysis. It was found that the accumulated release ratio of Ru was decreased with the increase of the initial Ru concentration in the simulated HLW. However, those of Cs and Nd were not influenced by the initial concentrations of them.

Study on release and transport of aerial radioactive materials in reprocessing plant, 8; Cold large scale test

Abe, Hitoshi; Masaki, Tomoo; Watanabe, Koji; Suzuki, Shinya; Tashiro, Shinsuke; Amano, Yuki; Yamane, Yuichi; Yoshida, Kazuo; Uchiyama, Gunzo; Ueda, Yoshinori*; et al.

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The release and transport characteristics of radioactive materials under the boiling and desiccating accident of the high active liquid waste in a reprocessing plant have been studied. Ruthenium is one of the important nuclides for evaluating public dose from the volatile viewpoint. By using apparatus which can control the experimental condition of temperature and atmosphere composition in the gas phase, the transport characteristics data of RuO which is chemical form of Ru with volatility was acquired. As the results, it was found that RuO would transport in the gas phase without thermal decomposition and deposition onto the inner wall of glass under the experimental condition with nitric acid vapor.