Thermochemical safety evaluation of tertiary pyridine resin for the application to multi-functional reprocessing process “Adv.-ORIENT cycle development”

As part of “Adv.-ORIENT” (Advanced Optimization by Recycling Instructive ElemeNTs) cycle technologies, which aim to develop a new fuel cycle based on a fast reactor cycle system, the reactivity between a tertiary pyridine resin (TPR) and a methanol-nitric acid solution at elevated temperatures has been investigated in order to prevent runaway reactions. The influence of metal ions, which simulate metallic elements in nuclear spent fuels, and that of the composition of the methanol-nitric acid solution, on the thermal hazards of the mixture of TPR and the methanol-nitric acid solution has been estimated through thermal analysis and gram-scale heating experiments. Simulated high level liquid waste nitric acid solutions (SHLLW) were prepared through the addition of 28 reagents. It is reasonable to consider that metal ions have little influence on the thermal stability of the TPR-methanol-nitric acid system. However, it is likely that the possibility of thermal explosion is increased because the heat of the reaction of the TPR-methanol-SHLLW system with its precipitates is largest in all samples. It is reasonable to assume that the vigorous reactions of the TPR-methanol-nitric acid or SHLLW system would occur minimally in a closed and reflux condition even if this system were heated, because the exothermic reaction of the TPR-methanol-nitric acid or SHLLW system would be prevented by the latent heat of the evaporation of methanol-nitric acid solution.     

A novel chromatographic separation technique using tertiary pyridine resin for the partitioning of trivalent actinides and lanthanides

A novel chromatographic separation technique using a tertiary pyridine type resin has been applied to the partitioning of the trivalent actinides (An) and lanthanides (Ln) and several successful results have been shown. In an alcoholic hydrochloric acid system, the trivalent An were clearly separated from the Ln, while no such group separation was achieved in an alcoholic nitric acid system. On the other hand, the nitric acid system was more effective for the intragroup (i.e. individual) separation of the trivalent An and the Ln than the hydrochloric acid system. On the basis of these results, a novel concept for the partitioning of the trivalent An and Ln using the present separation technique and its flowchart have been proposed with its advantages and disadvantages.     

放化分离-液闪测量联合分析核电厂废树脂中的^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni北大核心CSCD

建立了一种核电厂放射性废离子交换树脂中^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni的联合分析方法。将废树脂样品经芬顿氧化消解后,先用氢氧化钠沉淀法沉淀^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni,再用阴离子交换树脂联合丁二酮肟沉淀对杂质离子进行分离纯化,纯化后用液体闪烁计器测量。本方法对废树脂中^(60)Co、^(65)Zn、^(54)Mn等干扰核素的去污因子均大于10^(3)。本方法对^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni的平均化学回收率分别为86%和90%,对废树脂中^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni的检测限分别为5.7 Bq/g、6.8 Bq/g。用加标样品对分析方法进行验证,预期值和测量值的偏差小于±10%。实验测得某核电厂一组一回路实际废树脂样品中^(55)Fe和^(63)Ni的平均活度浓度分别为(76.2±1.4)kBq/g和(120.0±5.1)kBq/g。     

Calcium isotope separation by band chromatography using 18-crown-6-ether resin

To develop the ⁴⁸Ca enrichment process, a feasibility study on a band chromatography was made using 9 M HCl solution and crown ether resin synthesized in porous silica beads. Prior to the chromatographic experiments, distribution coefficients, Kd, of Ca²⁺ and Sr²⁺ were measured at different concentrations of these ionic species. The frontal boundary of the chromatography was made by a usual manner of the breakthrough mode of calcium feeding, and the rear boundary was made by introducing strontium as a following ion on the basis of the observed Kd values. It was confirmed that the heavy isotope ⁴⁸Ca was depleted in the rear boundary region, while ⁴⁸Ca was enriched in the front boundary region. The values of separation coefficient ε (= α – 1) in three chromatographic operations at different temperatures were observed as 2 × 10^?3 ~ 3 × 10^?3. The separation coefficients observed in the front boundary regions, where ⁴⁸Ca was enriched, agreed with those observed in the rear boundary regions, where ⁴⁰Ca was enriched.