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Chapter 6 Radiation Control

Figure 6.7.1 History of the number of npPs, number of radiation workers, and total dose in Japan (excluding gcr)

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Figure 6.7.3 Trends in the annual average dose per radiation worker (excluding GCR)

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Figure 6.7.4 Trends in the number of radiation workers per NPP (excluding GCR)

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Fiscal year Figure 6.7.5 Trends in annual average total doses per npp in major counties

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  1. Radioactive Waste Management

Radioactive wastes are processed safely using dedicated facilities according to the nature of the solid, liquid and gaseous wastes so that they can be easily handled in the future. Those liquid and gaseous wastes for which concentrations are less than the discharge limits are discharged to the environment after checking their concentration.

Various ideas are incorporated in the waste management according to the following principles:

  1. Reducing the amount to be generated;

  2. Sorting at originating sources according to concentrations and nature;

  3. Reducing the volume and stabilizing the waste packages;

  4. Utilizing the time attenuation nature of radioactivity;

  5. Improving performance and reliability of processing facilities (high availability);

  6. Reducing amounts of secondary wastes generated by processing facilities; and

  7. Reducing discharges to the environment

Figure 6.8.1 outlines processing methods of radioactive wastes at NPPs.

  1. Radioactive Solid Wastes

Radioactive solid wastes are roughly classified into miscellaneous solid waste (flammable and nonflammable materials), solidified concentrated liquid waste, spent resin, and activated metal. Flammable miscellaneous solid waste is incinerated in an incinerator, and the nonflammable waste is compressed, as necessary and filled into drums and stored in the solid waste storage facility. Concentrated liquid waste is solidified with solidification materials, such as cement, asphalt, or plastic, and filled into drums and also stored as solid waste in the solid waste storage facility. Cement solidification was adopted for solidification of concentrated liquid waste for BWRs and PWRs at the beginning, but, methods to remove water from liquid waste and solidify the remaining solid content for greater volume reduction by asphalt, plastic, and pellet solidifications have been put into use. Furthermore, advanced cement solidification for improved volume reduction PWR waste has been introduced. Each of these processes has reduced the number of solidified radioactive waste

package to one fifth, compared with the original cement solidification. Moreover, the ion exchange resin used in the demineralizer of the reactor clean­up system and the ion exchange resin, powdered resin, sludge, activated carbon, etc. generated from the water treatment facilities of other systems are stored in dedicated tanks, and ion exchange resin of a low radioactivity level is also processed by incinerators. On the other hand, spent components of comparatively high radioactivity level, such as control rods and channel boxes, are stored in the spent fuel pool or the site-bunker pool. As the final disposal method for radioactive solid waste is to be repository disposal, it is important to reduce the waste generation and to process it to reduce the amount to be disposed. For this reason, efforts have been made to reduce the waste generation adopting long-life control rods, metal thermal insulation, burnable gas filters, durable temporary materials, simplified protective measures, and mechanization of decontamination methods, etc., as well as to develop and introduce incineration disposal of flammables and a volume-reducing solidification method for concentrated liquid waste, etc.

Figure 6.8.2 shows the amount of annual radioactive solid wastes generated per one light water reactor, and Figure 6.8.3 shows the trend for accumulated solid wastes stored at all light water reactors.

The amount of miscellaneous solid waste generated in one year (in drums per NPP) around 1980 was from about 3,000 to 4,500 for BWRs and about 1,000 for PWRs. An increase in the waste generation from BWRs around 1980 was due to an increase in miscellaneous solid waste generate, that accompanied implementation of SCC countermeasures at many plants. And, as the waste contained a considerable fraction of flammables such as plastic sheets, the final waste generation was reduced by actively taking measures such as incineration for volume reduction. Although the number of power plants increased after 1985, the amount of waste generated per plant for one year was less than 1,000 drums for BWRs and around 500 drums for PWRs. An upward trend has seen since 2000, but this was because large-scale modification activities including BWR shroud replacement were continuously performed.

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