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Advanced techniques for analytic liquid wastes management in the Rokkasho reprocessing plant

Abstract

The JNFS Rokkasho reprocessing plant is a large scale commercial reprocessing plant. Liquid waste treatment relies on concentration by evaporation. The management of liquid wastes is rather sophisticated and implies, beside the organic wastes, sorting out between process and non-process, acidic and salt-bearing, tritiated and low tritiated streams and also according to their level of activity. A particular attention had to be paid to the analytical wastes, as their particularity is to contain not only a significant amount of radioactivity but also some fissile material and exotic chemicals which are useful for analytical purpose but unwanted in the main process mainly because of their corrosive and chelating properties. The analytical wastes are sorted out according to their activity level and fissile material content. On the one hand, a specific process has been developed to recover the bulk of plutonium from the analytical wastes. On the other hand, the foreseeable amount of unwanted chemicals (such as chloride ions) has been drastically reduced by carefully selecting all the analytical methods either by modification of already known methods or in some cases by working out new methods.
Authors:
Madic, C; [1]  Moulin, J P; Runge, S; [2]  Schott, R; [3]  Mukohara, S; [4]  Kashiwai, T; [5]  Hayashi, M [6] 
  1. CEA Centre d`Etudes de Fontenay-aux-Roses, 92 (FR)
  2. Societe Generale pour les Techniques Nouvelles (SGN), 78 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR)
  3. Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires (COGEMA), 50 - Cherbourg (FR). Etablissement de La Hague
  4. Japan Nuclear Fuel Service Co., Ltd. Tokyo (JP)
  5. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Tokyo (JP)
  6. Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industries, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1991
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
CEA-CONF-10562; CONF-910413-
Reference Number:
SCA: 052001; 050800; PA: FRD-92:000060; SN: 92000658039
Resource Relation:
Conference: 3. international conference on nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management,Sendai (Japan),14 Apr 1991; Other Information: PBD: 1991
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; LIQUID WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; JAPAN; CHEMISTRY; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; INTERFERING ELEMENTS; EVAPORATION; PLUTONIUM RECYCLE; 052001; 050800; WASTE PROCESSING; SPENT FUELS REPROCESSING
OSTI ID:
10116248
Research Organizations:
CEA Centre d`Etudes de Fontenay-aux-Roses, 92 (France)
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92767135; TRN: FR9200060
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only)
Submitting Site:
FRN
Size:
6 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Madic, C, Moulin, J P, Runge, S, Schott, R, Mukohara, S, Kashiwai, T, and Hayashi, M. Advanced techniques for analytic liquid wastes management in the Rokkasho reprocessing plant. France: N. p., 1991. Web.
Madic, C, Moulin, J P, Runge, S, Schott, R, Mukohara, S, Kashiwai, T, & Hayashi, M. Advanced techniques for analytic liquid wastes management in the Rokkasho reprocessing plant. France.
Madic, C, Moulin, J P, Runge, S, Schott, R, Mukohara, S, Kashiwai, T, and Hayashi, M. 1991. "Advanced techniques for analytic liquid wastes management in the Rokkasho reprocessing plant." France.
@misc{etde_10116248,
title = {Advanced techniques for analytic liquid wastes management in the Rokkasho reprocessing plant}
author = {Madic, C, Moulin, J P, Runge, S, Schott, R, Mukohara, S, Kashiwai, T, and Hayashi, M}
abstractNote = {The JNFS Rokkasho reprocessing plant is a large scale commercial reprocessing plant. Liquid waste treatment relies on concentration by evaporation. The management of liquid wastes is rather sophisticated and implies, beside the organic wastes, sorting out between process and non-process, acidic and salt-bearing, tritiated and low tritiated streams and also according to their level of activity. A particular attention had to be paid to the analytical wastes, as their particularity is to contain not only a significant amount of radioactivity but also some fissile material and exotic chemicals which are useful for analytical purpose but unwanted in the main process mainly because of their corrosive and chelating properties. The analytical wastes are sorted out according to their activity level and fissile material content. On the one hand, a specific process has been developed to recover the bulk of plutonium from the analytical wastes. On the other hand, the foreseeable amount of unwanted chemicals (such as chloride ions) has been drastically reduced by carefully selecting all the analytical methods either by modification of already known methods or in some cases by working out new methods.}
place = {France}
year = {1991}
month = {Dec}
}