Decontamination Technique Using Liquid And Supercritical CO{sub 2}
- Green Nuclear Research Laboratory, University of Kyung Hee, Suwon, Kyungki-do, 449-701 (Korea, Republic of)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2343 (United States)
A green decontamination method using CO{sub 2} as a environmentally benign solvent has been studied for removal of contaminant in the nuclear power plant. We developed a decontamination technique using CO{sub 2} for removal of contaminants in working dresses. Owing to the low solubilizing. A reverse micelle system was developed. Fluorinated AOT was synthesized and used as surfactants forming microemulsions with water. Cobalt was decontaminated by dissolution into microemulsions in liquid CO{sub 2}. If this decontamination technique is applied to nuclear industry, the secondary waste during decontamination will be revolutionarily reduced. Negligibly small amount of water is a net waste, while the surfactants and solvent, CO{sub 2} are recovered and reused in the system. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21167962
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ICAPP'02: 2002 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Hollywood, FL (United States), 9-13 Jun 2002; Other Information: Country of input: France; 6 refs
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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