Ko YG, Kim CJ, Cho YH, Chung KH, Kang MJ. Combustion/absorption process for the separation of
14C and
3H in radwastes released from nuclear power plants and their analysis.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2017;
331:13-20. [PMID:
28242524 DOI:
10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.02.020]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Revised: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Radioactivities of 3H and 14C in spent radioactive ion exchange resins and spent radioactive lubricant oils released from nuclear power plants, has been determined using a combustion and sorption method (combustion method). The liquid scintillation counting (LSC) spectra showed that the interference of other radionuclides has not significantly affected the determination of radioactivities of 3H and 14C in the radwaste samples. The chemical structure of 14CO2, which originated from the combustion of radwastes, trapped 14C sorbent has been investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). FT-IR study showed interesting results that peaks for uncoupled CO2 and carbonic amide appeared at FT-IR spectra of CO2 high-absorbed 14C sorbents, while the peak for carbamate was only observed at the spectra of CO2 low-absorbed sorbents. During the CO2 sorption in 14C sorbent, temperature and viscosity of the sorbent increased owing to decrease of enthalpy and increase of apparent molecular weight of the sorbent caused by the bonding formation between sorbent molecules.
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