Feasibility of Processing of Accumulated Liquid Radioactive Waste from BN-350 Reactor

Abstract

It was found that the filtrate yielded by passing bottoms decantates through selective sorbents has the volume activity with respect to ¹³⁷Cs and ⁶⁰Co significantly greater than DK_b. A pretreatment of the bottoms before selective sorption was tested, which consisted in ozonation and subsequent filtration of the resulting precipitate. By the example of the liquid radioactive waste (LRW) decantate with the highest volume activity, it was shown that by combining the pretreatment with selective sorption it was possible to remove ¹³⁷Cs, ⁶⁰Co, and ⁵⁴Mn radionuclides from the decantate to the level under DK_b. Cementation of the slurries in the slurry/cement ratio of 0.3-0.7 was tested. It was proposed that the decantate freed from radionuclides be discharged into the Caspian Sea, and the slurry and secondary wastes yielded by decantate decontamination be included into cement compound.