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Declassification of radioactive water from a pool type reactor after nuclear facility dismantling

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RADIATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 72-74

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2017.03.027

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Evaporation; Radioactive liquid wastes; Reverse osmosis; Treatment

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This work is aimed to the treatment of the radioactive water from a dismantled nuclear facility with an experimental pool type reactor. The main objective of the treatment is to declassify the maximum volume of water and thus decrease the volume of radioactive liquid waste to be managed. In a preliminary stage, simulation of treatment by the combination of reverse osmosis (RO) and evaporation have been performed. Predicted results showed that the combination of membrane and evaporation technologies would result in a volume reduction factor higher than 600. The estimated time to complete the treatment was around 650 h (25-30 days). For different economical and organizational reasons which are explained in this paper, the final treatment of the real waste had to be reduced and only evaporation was applied. The volume reduction factor achieved in the real treatment was around 170, and the time spent for treatment was 194 days.

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