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Status of Czech Low and Intermediate Radioactive Waste Management in the Context of European Development

  • Trtilek, Radek;Havlova, Vaclava;Podlaha, Josef;Svoboda, Karel;Otcovsky, Tomas
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2021
  • The article summarises the status and competence of UJV Rez, a. s. (up to 2012, the Nuclear Research Institute Rez, Czech Republic) in the field of radioactive waste (RAW) management as a company managing of 95% of institutional radioactive wastes in Czech Republic. UJV Rez a. s. has been one of the Czech Republic's key research and engineering institutions in the field of nuclear energy production since 1955. The company processes and conditions prior to storage 95% of so-called institutional RAW and is the principal partner of the state with respect to the research support of the Czech deep geological repository development project. UJV Rez a. s. boasts its own accredited radiochemical analytical test laboratory, unique of its kind in the Czech Republic. Of equal importance is UJV Rez's active participation in a range of international organisations and associations and its involvement in wide range of international projects, and so as European projects. One of them is EU funded project PREDIS: Pre-disposal management of radioactive wastes, that has started at September 2020, focused on the field of low level radioactive waste (LLW) and intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) pre-disposal.

Low & Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Vitrification Using Plasma Arc Melting Technology

  • Min Byeong-Yeon
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제35권5호
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    • pp.482-496
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    • 2003
  • effectiveness of the PAM graphite-electrode technology for the treatment of many types of low-level radioactive waste including : combustible material, solidified resins in cement, inorganic materials, steel, glass, and solidified boric acid cement. The objectives of PAM-200 evaluation were to verify that 1) the facility meets air emission regulations, 2) the facility can be safely operated when processing hazardous and radioactive materials and 3) satisfactory final waste forms can be produced. Results, derived from KAERI's(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) analyses for samples of vitrified product, scrubbing solution and offgas collected during test period, show that PAM-200 can treat radioactive wastes as well as hazardous wastes with toxic constituents and radionuclides contained in the offgas exiting from the stack to the environment controlled to be far lower than the limit regulated by air conservation law and atomic law.

Korean Reference Disposal System for High-level Radioactive Wastes

  • Choi Heui-Joo;Choi Jongwon;Lee Jong Youl
    • 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국방사성폐기물학회 2005년도 Proceedings of The 6th korea-china joint workshop on nuclear waste management
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    • pp.225-235
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    • 2005
  • This paper outlined the status of the development of Korean Reference Disposal (KRS­1) system for high-level radioactive wastes. The repository concept was based on the engineering barrier system which KAERI has developed through a long-term research and development program. The design requirements were prepared for the conceptual design of the repository. The amount of PWR and CANDU spent fuels were projected with the current nuclear power plan. The disposal rates of PWR and CANDU spent fuels were analyzed. The reference geologic characteristics including classification of fracture zones were set for the KRS. The disposal concepts and the layout of the repository were described.

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방사성폐기물 고화체의 인수기준 및 평가기술 ( I ) (Acceptance Criteria and Evaluation Techniques for Radioactive Waste Forms ( I ))

  • 김정국;김준형;박헌휘
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제23권1호
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    • pp.81-94
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    • 1991
  • 방사성폐기물의 육지처분을 위한 인수기준을 개발하기 위하여 방사성폐기물의 처분관점의 분류법, 폐기물 발생에서 처분에 이르는 관리기간 동안 고려해야 할 기본요건 및 기준을 고찰하였다. 이로부터 방사성폐기물 고화체(또는 포장물)를 평가, 시험할 수 있는 표준시험방법을 보였다.

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Mechanical and elastic properties of vitrified radioactive wastes using ultrasonic technique

  • Sema Akyil Erenturk;Filiz Gur;Mahmoud A.A. Aslani
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제56권2호
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    • pp.472-476
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    • 2024
  • It is important that radioactive and nuclear wastes are immobilized in a glass composition with lower melting temperatures due to their economy. In this study, the elastic and mechanical properties of sodium borate-based vitrified radioactive waste were measured using ultrasonic techniques. Many ultrasonic parameters, such as elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio, and microhardness, were calculated by measuring the ultrasonic velocities of the glasses. The ultrasonic velocity data, the density, the calculated elastic moduli, micro-hardness, softening temperature, and Debye temperature depending on the glass composition were evaluated, and the relation with the structure was clarified. It was observed that the elastic modulus and Poisson ratio increased as the Cs2O content increased in glasses containing Cs waste. This result shows that the rigidity of the network structure of these glasses increases in contrast to the glass containing Sr.

Long-Term Experiments for Demonstrating Durability of a Concrete Barrier and Gas Generation in a Low-and Intermediate-Level Waste Disposal Facility

  • Kang, Myunggoo;Seo, Myunghwan;Kim, Soo-Gin;Kwon, Ki-Jung;Jung, Haeryong
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.267-270
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    • 2021
  • Long-term experiments have been conducted on two important safety issues: long-term durability of a concrete barrier with the steel reinforcements and gas generation from low-and intermediate-level wastes in an underground research tunnel of a radioactive waste disposal facility. The gas generation and microbial communities were monitored from waste packages (200 L and 320 L) containing simulated dry active wastes. In the concrete experiment, corrosion sensors were installed on the steel reinforcements which were embedded 10 cm below the surface of concrete in a concrete mock-up, and groundwater was fed into the mock-up at a pressure of 2.1 bars to accelerate groundwater infiltration. No clear evidence was observed with respect to corrosion initiation of the steel reinforcement for 4 years of operation. This is attributed to the high integrity and low hydraulic conductivity of the concrete. In the gas generation experiment, significant levels of gas generation were not measured for 4 years. These experiments are expected to be conducted for a period of more than 10 years.