Nabakhtiani, G., Giorgadze, I. and Ojovan, M.I. (2021) IAEA-assisted treatment of liquid radioactive waste at the Saakadze site in Georgia. Processes, 9 (9). 1679. ISSN 2227-9717
Abstract
50 m3 of legacy liquid radioactive waste at the Saakadze site in Georgia was treated using a modular type facility with apparatuses encased in three metallic 200 L drums using as purification method the sorption/ion exchange technology. The main contaminant of water in the underground tank was the long-lived radionuclide 226Ra. The casing of processing equipment enabled an effective conditioning of all secondary waste at the end of treatment campaign which resulted in the fully purified water stored on site for further reuse or discharge, and three 200 L metallic drums with cemented radioactive waste which are currently safely stored.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | treatment; liquid radioactive waste; sorption; ion exchange; purification; conditioning |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2021 15:54 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2021 15:54 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/pr9091679 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:178787 |