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http://dx.doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2019.17.1.15

Study on Chemical Decontamination Process Based on Permanganic Acid-Oxalic Acid to Remove Oxide Layer Deposited in Primary System of Nuclear Power Plant  

Kim, Chorong (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Central Research Institute)
Kim, Haksoo (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Central Research Institute)
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Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT) / v.17, no.1, 2019 , pp. 15-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
In accordance with the decommissioning plan for the Kori Unit 1 NPP, the reactor coolant system will be chemically decontaminated as soon as possible after permanent shutdown. This study developed the chemical decontamination process though the development project of decontamination technology of reactor coolant system and dismantled equipment for NPP decommissioning, which has been carried out since 2014. In this study, Oxidation/reduction process was conducted using system decontamination process development equipment of lab scale and was divided into unit and continuous processes. The optimal process time was derived from the unit process, and decontamination agent and the number of process were derived through the continuous processes. Through the unit process, the oxidation process took 5 hours and the reduction process took 4 hours. As optimum decontamination agent, the oxidizing agent was $200mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ Permanganic acid + $200mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ Nitric acid and the reducing agent was $2000mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ Oxalic acid. In the case of the number of processes, all oxide films were removed during the two-cycle chemical decontamination process of STS304 and SA508. In the case of Alloy600, all oxide films were removed when chemical decontamination was performed for three cycles or more.
Keywords
System decontamination; Oxidation; Reduction; Permanganic acid; Oxalic acid;
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