The Evaluation of Chemical Decontamination for Contaminated Carbon Steel Scrap by Multiphase Treatment Process - 20249
- Chemical Engineering Division, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, 1000 Wenhua Rd. Jiaan Village, Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, ROC (China)
There is a significant growth in the field of decommissioning of nuclear facilities due the fact that for a lot of them their end of life is nearing. In Taiwan, the government plans to steadily reduce the dependence on nuclear power and moves gradually towards a nuclear-free homeland. Therefore, the development of decommissioning technology becomes the significant issue for the next coming years. The decommissioning of a nuclear power plant is a long process and practical work including radiological surveys, decontamination, dismantling, and the subsequent waste management. Chemical decontamination is an important task in the decommissioning of nuclear power plants and is usually performed by circulating the chemical solution in selected systems or full systems in order to reduce dose levels. However, the decontamination of segmented metal parts is also considered to reduce the contamination to such levels that they may be disposed of at a lower classification or be unconditionally released, and it helps to achieve the goal of waste minimization and provide a more economical cost for disposal management. Chemical decontamination technology is used to remove the contaminated oxides deposited on the surface of metals by dissolving them with chemical mechanisms, such as chelation, acidic or alkaline dissolution, redox reaction and so on. Carbon steel is the major material used in systems and pipelines in the nuclear power plant, thus it is also commonly selected as the target to be decontaminated in the decommissioning process. In this study, the effectiveness of chemical decontamination is evaluated by using multiphase treatment process including the reduction and the oxidation steps. In the step of redox reaction, the oxidation state of the substance is very important. Especially metals of some oxidation states show solubility in water, which has a decisive influence on the chemical decontamination. The experiment of decontamination of metal scraps is carried out by the immersion method within a chemical solution. The relative operation parameters such as temperature, pH, and concentration of the chemical solution are recorded to demonstrate the effect of the decontamination process. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23030448
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-21-WM-20249; TRN: US21V1764070800
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2020: 46. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 8-12 Mar 2020; Other Information: Country of input: France; 4 refs.; available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2020/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY
RADIOCHEMISTRY AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
CARBON STEELS
CLASSIFICATION
DECONTAMINATION
DEPOSITS
MINIMIZATION
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
OXIDATION
OXIDES
PH VALUE
RADIATION DOSES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING
REDOX REACTIONS
SCRAP METALS
SOLUBILITY
SURFACE CONTAMINATION
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