Safety Evaluation for Hull Waste Treatment Process in JNC

Conference · Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2002

OSTI ID:828317

Kojima, H; Kurakata, K

Hull wastes and some scrapped equipment are typical radioactive wastes generated from reprocessing process in Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP). Because hulls are the wastes remained in the fuel shearing and dissolution, they contain high radioactivity. Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) has started the project of Hull Waste Treatment Facility (HWTF) to treat these solid wastes using compaction and incineration methods since 1993. It is said that Zircaloy fines generated from compaction process might burn and explode intensely. Therefore explosive conditions of the fines generated in compaction process were measured. As these results, it was concluded that the fines generated from the compaction process were not hazardous material. This paper describes the outline of the treatment process of hulls and results of safety evaluation.

• Research Organization: Tokai Reprocessing Center, Tokai Works, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute 4-33 Muramatsu Tokai Village Naka District Ibaraki Prefecture (JP)
• Sponsoring Organization: none (US)
• OSTI ID: 828317
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste Management 2002 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/24/2002--02/28/2002; Other Information: PBD: 26 Feb 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
COMBUSTION
DISSOLUTION
EVALUATION
EXPLOSIVES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
JNC
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
REPROCESSING
SAFETY
SOLID WASTES
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
ZIRCALOY