DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR （去污技术）.pdf

WM’03 Conference, February 23-27, 2003, Tucson, AZ DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR FACILITY REUSE Steven J. Bossart U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory P.O. Box 880 Morgantown, West Virginia 26507-0880 Danielle M. Blair Science Applications International Corporation P.O. Box 4194 Star City, West Virginia 26504 ABSTRACT As nuclear research and production facilities across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons complex are slated for deactivation and decommissioning (DD), there is a need to decontaminate some facilities for reuse for another mission or continued use for the same mission. Improved technologies available in the commercial sector and tested by the DOE can help solve the DOE’s decontamination problems. Decontamination technologies include mechanical methods, such as shaving, scabbling, and blasting; application of chemicals; biological methods; and electrochemical techniques. Materials to be decontaminated are primarily concrete or metal. Concrete materials include walls, floors, ceilings, bio-shields, and fuel pools. Metallic materials include structural steel, valves, pipes, gloveboxes, reactors, and other equipment. Porous materials such as concrete can be contaminated throughout their structure, although contamination in concrete normally resides in the top quarter-inch below the surface. Metals are normally only contaminated on the surface. Contamination includes a variety of alpha, beta, and gamma-emitting radionuclides and can sometimes include heavy metals and organic contamination regulated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This paper describes several a