Special Handling Requirements for Highly Loaded Organic Resins

摘要

The March 28, 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 (TMI-2) resulted in the transfer of more than 1900 m exp 2 of contaminated water to the auxiliary and fuel handling buildings. This water was later processed through a three-stage ion exchange system called EPICOR II. The first stage of this sytem, designated prefilters (PF), removed the bulk of the radioactivity, mainly cesium and strontium. The US Department of Energy (DOE), through its subcontractor, EG and G Idaho, Inc., and the General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation (GPUNC) recently began shipments of highly loaded EPICOR II prefilter liners to a DOE laboratory for research and disposition. One of these prefilter liners, PF-16, was selected for characterization because its high curie loading of 1250 and low residual water pH of 2.79 indicated that it was one of the most likely liners to demonstrate any potential damage from exposure to such conditions. (ERA citation 08:014927)