Method for processing radioactive liquid waste

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10032534-B2
Application number	US-201615059709-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 3, 2016
Priority date	Mar 16, 2015
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

A method for processing a radioactive liquid waste containing boron of the present invention includes: a molar ratio control step of adding an alkali metal or an alkali metal compound to a radioactive liquid waste containing boron to control an alkali metal/boron molar ratio in the radioactive liquid waste to be 0.8 or more; a drying step of drying the radioactive liquid waste having the controlled molar-ratio using a dryer to form a powdered waste; a dissolving step of mixing the powdered waste with kneading water to prepare a solution; and a kneading step of adding a hydraulic inorganic solidifying material to the solution, and kneading the hydraulic inorganic solidifying material and the solution for solidification.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for processing a radioactive liquid waste comprising:
controlling a molar ratio control of by adding an alkali metal or an alkali metal compound to a radioactive liquid waste containing boron to control an alkali metal/boron molar ratio in the radioactive liquid waste to be 0.8 or more;
drying the radioactive liquid waste having the controlled molar-ratio using a wiped film dryer to form a powdered waste;
dissolving the powered waste by mixing the powdered waste with kneading water to prepare a solution;
adding a hydraulic inorganic solidifying material to the solution in which the powdered waste has been dissolved; and
kneading the hydraulic inorganic solidifying material and the solution for solidification.

2. The method for processing a radioactive liquid waste according to claim 1 , wherein the alkali metal added to the radioactive liquid waste is lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium, rubidium, or a combination thereof.

3. The method for processing a radioactive liquid waste according to claim 1 , wherein the alkali metal compound added to the radioactive liquid waste is lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, cesium hydroxide, rubidium hydroxide, lithium oxide, sodium oxide, potassium oxide, cesium oxide, rubidium oxide, sodium aluminate, lithium aluminate, potassium aluminate, cesium aluminate, rubidium aluminate, or a combination thereof.

4. The method for processing a radioactive liquid waste according to claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic inorganic solidifying material is a Portland cement, caustic lime, blast-furnace slug cement, fly ash, siliceous material, pozzolanic material, alumina cement, or phosphoric acid cement, or a combination thereof.

5. The method for processing a radioactive liquid waste according to claim 1 , wherein an alkali metal/boron molar ratio in the powdered waste after the drying is 0.8 or more.

6. The method for processing a radioactive liquid waste according to claim 1 , wherein a temperature for drying the radioactive liquid waste is more than 140° C. in the drying.

7. A method for processing a radioactive liquid waste comprising:
adding of adding an alkali metal or an alkali metal compound to a radioactive liquid waste containing boron to produce radioactive liquid wastes having different alkali metal/boron molar ratios;
mixing of mixing powdered wastes prepared by drying each of the produced radioactive liquid wastes using a wiped film dryer to control an alkali metal/boron molar ratio in the mixed powdered wastes to be 0.8 or more;
dissolving the powered waste by mixing the powdered waste having the controlled molar-ratio with kneading water to prepare a solution;
adding a hydraulic inorganic solidifying material to the solution in which the powdered waste has been dissolved; and
kneading the solution and the hydraulic inorganic solidifying material for solidification.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Okabe Hirofumi
• Kaneko Masaaki
• Sato Tatsuaki
• Motohashi Tetsuo
• Sugimori Toshiaki
• Arai Rie
• Sato Yohei

Classifications

• G21F9/165 Primary

  Cement or cement-like matrix (compositional aspects C04B) · CPC title

• G21F9/162 Primary

  in an inorganic matrix, e.g. clays, zeolites · CPC title

• G21F9/06

  Processing (separating different isotopes of the same chemical element B01D59/00) · CPC title

• C04B2111/00767

  for waste stabilisation purposes · CPC title

• C04B28/04

  Portland cements · CPC title