Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of disposing of radioactive metal waste using melting decontamination
- Patent Title (中): 使用熔融去污处理放射性金属废物的方法
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Application No.: US13870745Application Date: 2013-04-25
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Publication No.: US08796500B2Publication Date: 2014-08-05
- Inventor: Suk Ju Cho , Young Bae Lee , Jeung Gun Seol , Yong Jae Kim
- Applicant: Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2012-0046976 20120503
- Main IPC: A62D1/00
- IPC: A62D1/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of disposing of radioactive metal waste using melting decontamination, including sorting radioactive metal waste generated in nuclear fuel processing or production facilities by predetermined sorting criteria, and charging sorted metal waste into a melting furnace so as to be melted; adding a impurity remover to the melt of the melting furnace to remove generated slag; pouring the melt having no slag into a mold to form an ingot; subjecting the ingot to gamma spectroscopy using a gamma spectrometer to measure gamma rays of U-235 (185.72 keV, 57.2%) among uranium isotopes, performing detector calibration using a certified reference material and self-absorption correction depending on the density of a medium using MCNP computer code, and calculating total radioactivity of the ingot from the quantified radioactivity and mass of U-235; and efficiently and rapidly determining whether the ingot subjected to radioactivity measurement satisfies a clearance limit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130296628A1 METHOD OF DISPOSING OF RADIOACTIVE METAL WASTE USING MELTING DECONTAMINATION Public/Granted day:2013-11-07
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