中国原子能科学研究院高放废物处理处置技术研究进展

Research Progress in High-level Waste Treatment and Disposal at China Institute of Atomic Energy

  • 摘要: 高放废物处理处置是制约我国核能可持续发展的重要因素。中国原子能科学研究院(简称原子能院)放射性废物处理处置研究团队长期致力于高放废物固化处理技术和高放废物处置技术研究,本文主要介绍了研究团队近年来在高放废液玻璃固化、高放固体废物固化和高放废物深地质处置等领域取得的研究进展。在高放废液玻璃固化方面,自主化发展了两步法冷坩埚玻璃固化技术,完成了玻璃固化主工艺开发、关键设备研制和初步数字化模拟仿真,并针对不同高放废液源项开发了与之相适应的玻璃固化配方。在高放固体废物固化方面,自主化发展了针对干法后处理氯化物废盐的玻璃-陶瓷复合固化技术和针对干法后处理金属阳极泥的金属熔炼固化技术,目前已完成固化配方体系、制备工艺研究以及原理实验装置研制。在高放废物深地质处置方面,研发了多套核素迁移研究试验装置,建立了针对地下水中低浓核素的CE-ICP-MS形态分析方法,获得了各关键核素在不同模拟深地质处置环境下的吸附、扩散、弥散数据,并开发了核素在处置环境中迁移行为的初步预测模型。

     

    Abstract: The treatment and disposal of high-level waste (HLW) are the main factors limiting the sustainable development of nuclear energy in China. The HLW research team at the China Institute of Atomic Energy is devoted to develope HLW treatment and disposal technologies. The main research progress of China Institute of Atomic Energy in recent years in liquid HLW vitrification, solid HLW immobilization, and HLW geological disposal presented was summarized in this paper. Regarding liquid HLW vitrification, a “two-step” cold crucible induction melter (CCIM) technology has been developed, with the establishment of processing techniques, main technological equipment, and preliminary numerical modeling, coupled with glass formulations suitable for various HLW sources. For solid HLW immobilization, a glass-ceramic immobilization route and an alloy smelting immobilization route have been developed for high-level halide waste and high-level metallic waste, respectively. In both cases, the immobilizing matrices and production conditions have been intensively investigated. In terms of HLW disposal, a series of research apparatuses for nuclide migration experiments under simulated deep geological repository conditions have been established. Together with analytical methods for measuring extremely low concentrations of nuclides in groundwater, massive data and characteristics of nuclide adsorption, dispersion, and diffusion in various scenarios have been obtained. These provide powerful support for establishing migration models to predict nuclide migration behavior over hundreds of thousands of years in deep geological environments.

     

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