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- Title
Leaching of <sup>137</sup>Cs from Chernobyl fuel debris: corium and "lava".
- Authors
Zubekhina, Bella Yu.; Burakov, Boris E.; Bogdanova, Oksana G.; Petrov, Yuriy Yu.
- Abstract
Samples of Chernobyl fuel debris such as corium and "lava" had been studied using repeated static leach test MCC-1 at temperature of 25 and 90 °C in distilled water and simulated seawater. A normalized 137Cs mass loss (NLCs) estimated for corium samples after 168 days in distilled and seawater was 3.2–3.5 g/m2 at 25 °C and 113–114 g/m2 at 90 °C. For "lava" samples NLCs varied from 1.4 to 13.2 g/m2 at 90 °C for 56 days (in distilled and seawater) and from 0.1 to 0.4 g/m2 at 25 °C in seawater for 140 days. Chemical durability of Chernobyl "lava" in distilled and seawater evaluated using 137Cs specific activity in leachates is higher than one for corium. Further study is proposed in order to obtain more quantitative data.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL seawater; LAVA; CESIUM isotopes; FUEL; DISTILLED water; LEACHATE
- Publication
Radiochimica Acta, 2019, Vol 107, Issue 12, p1155
- ISSN
0033-8230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ract-2019-0009