EP2101333B1 - Procédé de transformation de déchets radioactifs liquides - Google Patents

Procédé de transformation de déchets radioactifs liquides Download PDF

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EP2101333B1
EP2101333B1 EP07852046.7A EP07852046A EP2101333B1 EP 2101333 B1 EP2101333 B1 EP 2101333B1 EP 07852046 A EP07852046 A EP 07852046A EP 2101333 B1 EP2101333 B1 EP 2101333B1
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Valentin Alexandrovich Avramenko
Vitaly Georgievich Dobrzhansky
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Sergei Ivanovich Shmatko
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  • the invention relates to protection of the environment, namely methods for liquid radioactive waste (LRW) reprocessing comprising immobilizing same into a crystal material, acceptable from the viewpoint of ecology and the invention can be used at facilities of atomic power industry and chemical-metallurgical production lines.
  • LRW liquid radioactive waste
  • Liquid radioactive waste reprocessing is connected with the necessity to attain a safe long-term storage of radioactive waste (RAW), for which purpose hard radioactive waste (HRW) change into a state providing for a minimum leaching-out of radionuclides with natural waters.
  • RAW radioactive waste
  • HRW hard radioactive waste
  • This task is solved by conventional methods such as bituminization, cementation and vitrification of RAW (patent RU N 2088986, 27.08.1997 ; patent RU N 2271586, 10,03.2006 ; patent RU N 2131152, 27.05.1999 ; Donald I.W., Metcalfe B.L., Taylor R.N.J. The immobilization of high level radioactive wastes using ceramics and glasses. Review. Journal of Materials Science, 32, 1997. p. 5856-5862 ), The least degree of leaching is provided with RAW vitrification and has a value of about 10 -6 g/cm. day.
  • Such forms of RAW immobilization are ceramic material widely known by the trade name Syncron whose matrix is normally a combination of hollandite (BaAl 2 Ti 2 O 6 or BaAl 2 Ti 6 O) 6 ), perovskite (CaTiO 3 ) and zirconolite (CaZrTi 2 O 7 ).
  • Sorption reactant materials are the new promising materials for the recovery of radionuclides.
  • sorption-reactant materials resides in continuously forming an insoluble compound sorbing radionuclides in a porous matrix of inert material, with a continuous growth of crystals of the insoluble compound concurrently with sorption of the radionuclides.
  • the result there form crystal materials with a very small interface surface and sorbed radionuclides distributed over entire volume of the crystal material; such being the case, the leaching of radionuclides from sorption-reactant materials is by several orders lower than from selective ion - exchange sorbents having a large exchange capacity and, as so, a large interface surface.
  • patent RU No 2185671 20.07.2002 discloses the recovery of strontium radionuclides from solutions with a high content of hardness salts and liquid radioactive wastes of a complex chemical composition.
  • SRMs are formed directly in the process of purification due to reaction of a starting sorption-reactant material comprising barium exchange cations, with a sulfate-ion purifying containing solution with the formation of insoluble barium sulfate crystallzable in the matrix of the sorption-reactant material.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide of a method of reprocessing liquid radioactive wastes containing long-lived radionuclides, preferably cobalt, manganese and strontium in hydrothermal conditions, which provides a high degree of purification of solutions from radionuclides, as required, a high separation coefficient (a ratio of purified LRW/HRW volumes), formation of a strong durable ceramic matrix with a minimum leaching-out of the radionuclides.
  • the problem is solved by a method of reprocessing liquid radioactive wastes containing long-lived radionuclides by synthesis of insoluble compounds immobilizing the long-lived radionuclides into a crystal lattice under hydrothermal conditions in a flow by passing LRWs being treated and reagents required for the synthesis through a layer of transition metal oxides at a rate providing for crystallizing of synthesizable radionuclide-containing compounds on the surface of the particles of the layer of oxides.
  • the transition metal oxides used are represented by iron oxide and/or manganese oxide and/or cobalt oxide and/or zirconium oxide.
  • the conditions for hydrothermal synthesis are a temperature comprised between 180 and 250°C and a pressure between 2.026 to 15.2 MPa (20 and 150 atm).
  • crystallization means the change of a substance from the liquid state to the solid crystal state and the term “crystallization on the surface of particles” is heterogenic formation of a crystal phase on the surface of a solid.
  • phase in the context of the present invention one should imply a generally accepted in the art, uniform in formulation and properties, part of a thermodynamic system separated from other phases by interfaces on which some of the properties of the system change stepwise.
  • immobilization in the present invention one should imply inclusion of radionuclides in a crystal lattice of insoluble compounds crystallizable on the surface of particles of a layer.
  • the speed of passing of LRW solutions through the layer of particles should be such that the formation of crystals on the surface of the layer of immobilizing radionuclide particles provide the desirable degree of purification from the radionuclides.
  • the speed of a flow is greater than a certain value determined experimentally in each and every particular case there occurs crystallization in the volume of a solution but not the surface of particles of the layer and more than that a portion of radionuclides containing crystals are lift out of the layer and no purification occurs whatsoever.
  • a solution being treated should contain ions forming under hydrothermal conditions the crystals of compounds immobilizing radionuclides.
  • reagents which would supply presence with ions required for the synthesis in the solution are added to the solution of LRW, said reagents being represented by oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide or potassium permanganate, oxidizing ions within the LRWs to an oxidation state of formation of insoluble compounds, and/or metal salts.
  • Fig. 1 shows the ASM-pictures of particles of a layer before hydrothermal synthesis (initial particle), Fig. 2 - in the process of synthesis, Fig. 3 - upon completion of hydrothermal synthesis.
  • a method for any one of the alternative embodiments is realized as followings.
  • Reagents as required depending on the type of the LRWs being processed are added to the feeding LRW followed by feeding LRWs to the flow reactor for hydrothermal synthesis in which a layer of particles of insoluble compounds is placed.
  • Synthesis is carried out in a temperature range of 180 to 250°C, at a pressure of 2.026-15.2MPa (20 to 150 atm), which corresponds to the sufficient rate of crystal growth and the desirable degree of purification from radionuclides.
  • the compounds resulting from hydrothermal synthesis are deposited on insoluble particles forming the layer.
  • a radionuclide-free solution is a process radioactive-free waste material.
  • the layered structure of a synthesized compound which grows on an initial globular structure is seen on the pictures.
  • EXAMPLE 1 (not forming part of the claimed invention; Variant 1).
  • LRWs containing 2 g/l Trilon B and 0.5 g/l trisodium phosphate having a 0.1 g/l concentration of calcium ions and comprising strontium-90 radionuclides (1.5 ⁇ 10 -6 Ci/l) are passed through a layer of hydroxylapatite Ca 3 PO 4 ⁇ Ca(OH) 2 having a particle size of 0.1-0.3 mm, charged into a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm.
  • the process is carried out at the flow speed of I ml/min., at the temperature of 200°C and pressure of 100 atm (10.13 MPa).
  • a solution flow is provided with a chromatographic high pressure pump.
  • EXAMPLE 2 (Variant 2).
  • the bottoms of a nuclear waste evaporators which are purified from cesium radionuclides by filtration through ferrocyanide sorbents and contained cobalt-60 radionuclides (1 ⁇ 10 -5 Ci/l) and manganese-54 (1 ⁇ 10 -8 Ci/l) are passed through a layer of iron-cobalt ferrite (iron-cobalt oxides) with an iron to cobalt molar ratio of 1:01 and a particle size of 0.2-0.5 mm charged into a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x10 mm.
  • the process is carried out at the flow speed of 2 ml/min., at the temperature of 220°C and pressure of 100 atm (10.13 MPa).
  • a solution flow is provided with a high pressure chromatographic pump. Simultaneously 6% solution of hydrogen peroxide is added to the reactor by the second high pressure pump at the rate of 0.6 ml/min.
  • Activity of the effluent solution and the leaching coefficients of cobalt radionuclides from the charge of oxides formed, as specified upon completion of a test are given in Table 2.
  • EXAMPLE 3 (Variant 3). LRWs containing 2 g/l Trilon B and 0.5 g/l trisodium phosphate having a concentration of calcium ions of 0,1 g/l and comprising strontium-90 radionuclides (1.5 ⁇ 10 -6 Ci/l) are passed through a layer of zirconium oxide having a particle size of 0.1-0.3 mm, charged into a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm. The process proceeds at the speed of a flow of 1 ml/min., at 200°C and the pressure of 10.13 MPa (100 atm). A solution flow is provided with a chromatographic high pressure pump.
  • EXAMPLE 4 Sea water contaminated with strontium-90 radionuclides, 2 ⁇ 10 -6 Ci activity, is passed through a layer of manganese dioxide having a particle size of 0.05-0.1 mm, charged in a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm. The process is carried out at the speed of a flow of 1 ml/min. at 220°C and the pressure of 10.13 MPa (100 atm). A solution flow is provided with a high pressure chromatographic pump. A solution 0.1 n manganese (II) chloride and 0.1 n potassium permanganate solution were added to the reactor by high pressure pumps at the rate of 0.6 ml/min.
  • EXAMPLE 5 LRWs being decontaminated containing 2 g/l sodium oxalate and 0.5 g/l Trilon B purified from cesium radionuclides by filtration through ferrocyanide sorbents and comprising cobalt - 60 (1 ⁇ 10 -7 Ci/l) and strontium-90 (4 ⁇ 10 -7 Ci/l) radionuclides are successively passed through a layer of iron-cobalt ferrite with a molar ratio of iron: cobalt of 1: 0.1 and a particle size of 0.2-0.5 mm, charged in a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm and through a layer of manganese dioxide having a particle size of 0.05-0.1 mm, charged in the heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm.
  • the process proceeds at the speed of a flow of 1 ml/min, at 200°C and pressure of 100 bar.
  • a solution flow is provided a high pressure chromatographic pump.
  • Simultaneously 6% hydrogen peroxide solution at the rate of 0.6 ml/min is added to the first reactor and 0.1 n manganese (II) chloride solution is added to the second reactor by the high-pressure pump.
  • EXAMPLE 6 Alkali LRWs containing 0.3 g/l sodium hydroxide cobalt-60 (1 ⁇ 10 -7 Ci/l) and cesium - 137 (6 ⁇ 10 -7 Ci/l) radionuclides are passed through a layer of perlite-filter with the contained 3.4% iron, charged in a heated cylindrical reactor dimensioned 100 x 10 mm. The process is conducted at the speed of a flow of 0.3 ml/min. at 170°C and the pressure of 10.13 MPa (100 atm). A solution flow is provided with the high - pressure chromatographic pump.

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  1. Procédé de transformation de déchets radioactifs liquides DRL contenant des radionucléides à vie longue par la synthèse de composés insolubles immobilisant les radionucléides à vie longue dans un réseau cristallin, caractérisé en ce que la synthèse d'une phase cristalline est effectuée dans des conditions hydrothermiques, à une gamme de températures de 180 °C à 250 °C et une gamme de pressions de 2,026 à 15,2 MPa (20 à 150 atm.), dans un flux en faisant passer les DRL en cours de traitement et les réactifs requis pour la synthèse à travers une couche d'oxyde de fer et/ou d'oxyde de manganèse et/ou d'oxyde de cobalt et/ou d'oxyde de zirconium, à une vitesse permettant la cristallisation de composés synthétisables contenant les radionucléides sur la surface des particules de la couche d'oxydes.
  2. Procédé de transformation selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la phase cristalline est synthétisée sous la forme d'oxydes et en ce que les composés synthétisables contenant les radionucléides sont des oxydes.
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