The Canadian decontamination program
Description
The development of the CAN-DECON decontamination process and its application to full-system decontaminations of CANDU reactors are described. Two distinctive features of the CANDU system, the heavy water coolant and the large amount of carbon steel piping, dictated that a dilute, relatively non-corrosive decontamination process was required. As a result of a need to decontaminate the Douglas Point reactor in the mid-1970's, an intensive collaborative research program was carried out and the dilute, regenerable CAN-DECON process was developed and demonstrated. The main steps in the application of the CAN-DECON process in a CANDU reactor are described. The process has several advantageous characteristics, including a relatively short application time and the production of only solid wastes. It has been successfully applied to several full-system decontaminations of the Douglas Point and Pickering reactors
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the symposium on advanced nuclear services
- Imprint Pagination
- 451 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 17.1-17.12.
- Report number
- INIS-mf--12869
Conference
- Title
- Symposium on advanced nuclear services.
- Dates
- 11 Jun 1986.
- Place
- Toronto, ON (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 22063978
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CANDU TYPE REACTORS; DECONTAMINATION; PRIMARY COOLANT CIRCUITS; SOLUTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- CLEANING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DISPERSIONS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; MIXTURES; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS