Title :
Plasma processes of nuclear waste materials under atmospheric-pressure
Author :
Suzuki, M. ; Mori, Shinsuke
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Institute of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. The plasma processing requires lots of energy and should be used as a value-added process. Application of plasma process to the nuclear engineering field can be one of the best choice if process safety is assured. We have suggested several kind of application to the waste treatment processes of the nuclear materials, investigated and developed them. In this paper we pick up our two waste treating processes which use atmospheric pressure plasma, the decontamination process by microwave plasma and the niobium separation process from Nb-Zr alloy by DC plasma.
Keywords :
niobium alloys; plasma materials processing; radiation decontamination; radioactive waste processing; zirconium alloys; BWR conditions; DC plasma; Gibbs free energy changes; Nb-Zr; atmospheric pressure plasma; decontamination process; microwave plasma; niobium separation; nuclear waste treatment; plasma processing; spent fuel; Atmospheric-pressure plasmas; Decontamination; Niobium; Plasma applications; Plasma materials processing; Power engineering and energy; Radioactive pollution; Safety; Separation processes; Waste materials;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science, 2003. ICOPS 2003. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 30th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jeju, South Korea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7911-X
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2003.1230025