Northeast utilities, Millstone Station's experience with Eichrom Industries' Diphonixtrademark selective ion-exchange resin in liquid radioactive waste
Creators
- 1. Northwest Nuclear Energy Company, Waterford, CT (United States)
Description
Three nuclear units at Northeast Utilities' Millstone Station-the General Electric boiling water reactor (Unit 1), the Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor (Unit 2) and the Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (Unit 3)-completed a series of bench-top and side-stream pilot scale tests of Eichrom Industries Diphonixtrademark resin, a novel gel-type ion-exchange resin. This testing was part of an overall optimization of their radioactive waste (radwaste) systems including use of coagulants and cesium-specific zeolite materials. These tests projected significant improvements over traditional, strong-acid cation-exchange resins. By installing Diphonix resin, Millstone addressed its goals of minimizing the spent resin generated from its liquid radwaste systems and minimizing the activity discharged into the environment from these systems while continuing to use existing capital equipment
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radioactivity and Radiochemistry
- Journal Volume
- 6
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 4-11.
- ISSN
- 1045-845X
- CODEN
- RARAE6
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 27076028
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CESIUM 137; COAGULANTS; COBALT 60; ION EXCHANGE; LIQUID WASTES; MILLSTONE-1 REACTOR; MILLSTONE-2 REACTOR; MILLSTONE-3 REACTOR; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; REMOVAL; RESINS
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DRUGS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; HEMATOLOGIC AGENTS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES