CRITICALITY SAFETY CHALLENGES OF HLLW STORAGE AND TREATMENT IN CHINA IN NEXT DECADE

摘要

New tanks are planned for storage of High Level Liquid Waste (HLLW) in China. Transferring HLLW from existing tanks to the new tanks will be a challenging criticality safety issue over the next decade. In addition, China will be assessing the use of vitrification, partitioning, and transmutation processes for HLLW and criticality safety evaluations will be needed for each process.