Evaluation of corrosion resistance of A516 Steel in a molten nitrate salt mixture using a pilot plant facility for application in CSP plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 226-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. García-Martín ◽  
M.I. Lasanta ◽  
V. Encinas-Sánchez ◽  
M.T. de Miguel ◽  
F.J. Pérez
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Pérez ◽  
Víctor Encinas-Sánchez ◽  
Gustavo García-Martín ◽  
María Isabel Lasanta ◽  
María Teresa de Miguel

Author(s):  
Yun D. Choi ◽  
D. S. Hwang ◽  
U. S. Chung

A decommissioning project for a uranium conversion plant was conducted to restore it to a safe environmental condition and minimal low level radioactive wastes which were converted to stable chemical forms for a long term disposal. In the middle of 2004, a decommissioning program for a conversion plant, which was constructed in 1982, and treated about 300 tons of natural uranium until it was shut down in 1992, obtained its approval from the regulatory body. Actual dismantling and decontaminating activities have been performed since July 2004 and will be finished by December 2009. The decommissioning works were mainly divided into two parts: the inside of the building containing the process equipments; the lagoon sludge generated during the plant operation. The decommissioning of the inside of the building was carried out by dismantling the process equipment, which were firstly segmented and decontaminated by polishing and washing with steam and chemicals or melting, and then decontamination for the surfaces inside the building by excavating or grinding the concrete walls. The decontamination goals were below 0.2Bq/g for the metallic segments and below 0.4Bq/cm2 for the concrete walls. Decontamination methods were selected according to the degree of contamination and a minimization of the low level radioactive wastes was conducted throughout the decommissioning work. The lagoon sludge waste had two types, one was an various inorganic nitrate salt mixture containing a very low concentration of uranium, about 200∼300ppm, in Lagoon-II and the other was an inorganic nitrate salt mixture containing a few percent of uranium in Lagoon-I. To treat these sludge wastes a thermal decomposition facility was constructed and operated to produce stable sludge wastes containing uranium oxides which are stable in the air. The final sludge wastes after a thermal treating for the sludge waste of Lagoon-I could be reused. The final residual radioactivity for the inside of the building will be measured to confirm a complete decontamination of the uranium to back ground level and then the building will be considered for another use.


Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Carlota Ucha ◽  
Otilia Reyes ◽  
Carmen Trasar-Cepeda ◽  
Josefa Salgado ◽  
Juan José Parajó

The ecotoxicity of a mixture of the ionic liquid ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) and aluminum nitrate salt (Al(NO3)3), as well as the corresponding pure components, was studied in this work. This mixture is of singular interest as electrolytes in electrochemical applications and data on the effects of mixture and components on the environment can hardly be found in the literature. Changes in the bioluminescence of the Aliivibrio fischeri (Beijerinck) Urbanczyk bacteria, determined through a Microtox® test, and microbial activity, measured by microcalorimetry, of two soils with different organic matter contents when exposed to solutions of different concentrations of these compounds were analyzed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 9630-9634
Author(s):  
Paweena Treewiriyakitja ◽  
Sutep Joy-A-Ka ◽  
Piyorose Promdirek

1989 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-688
Author(s):  
Takehiko ITAGAKI ◽  
Toshiharu KOBAYASHI ◽  
Jung Wei SHIH ◽  
Takashi ARAI ◽  
Michio YAMAZAKI

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