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In order to improve radioactive spent radioactive resin management, spent resin just like other organic waste needs to be treated to be inorganic. The microwave ashing can meet the processing requirements of radioactive waste resin and can solve the problems for the waste resin processing on nuclear power plants. The radioactive waste resin microwave ashing process changes the waste resin into ash by microwave. Microwave ashing technics can treat spent resin as inorganic by microwave penetration and volumetric heating. Microwave ashing process can remove almost all organic components in spent resin. For the ashes, the product of microwave ashing process, the risk level will be near zero and the volume and weight will be minimized. For the spent resin, moisture content is about 50%, with microwave power density 10 w/g; the weight reduce rate is more than 90%. The study of microwave ashing for spent resin show that the processing of microwave ashing can achieve spent resin ashing, and the treatment effect suffices the requirements of the radioactive waste treatment. The ashes will be safety for storage and disposal.
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Gao, C., Jia, M., Wang, Y. (2017). The Study of Microwave Ashing for Spent Radioactive Resin. In: Jiang, H. (eds) Proceedings of The 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference. PBNC 2016. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2314-9_56
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