Passive Sampling Tool for Actinides in Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools.

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Title
Passive Sampling Tool for Actinides in Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools.
Journal
ACS omega
Author(s)
Chaplin J.D., Christl M., Straub M., Bochud F., Froidevaux P.
ISSN
2470-1343 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2470-1343
Publication state
Published
Issued date
14/06/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
7
Number
23
Pages
20053-20058
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
Spent nuclear fuel must be carefully managed to prevent pollution of the environment with radionuclides. Within the framework of correct radioactive waste management, spent fuel rods are stored in cooling pools to allow short-lived fission products to decay. If fuel rods leak, they liberate radionuclides into the cooling water; therefore, it is essential to determine radionuclide concentrations in the pool water for monitoring purposes and to plan the decommissioning process. In this work, we present, to our knowledge, the first passive sampling technique for measures of actinides in spent nuclear fuel pools, based on recently developed diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) configurations. These samplers eliminate the need to retrieve and handle large samples of fuel pool water for radiochemical processing by immobilizing their targeted radionuclides in situ on the solid phase within the sampler. This is additionally the first application of the DGT technique for Cm measure. Herein, we make the calibrated effective diffusion coefficients of U, Pu, Am, and Cm in borated spent fuel pool water available. We tested these samplers in the fuel pool of a nuclear facility and measured samples using accelerator mass spectrometry to provide high-precision isotopic reports, allowing for the first independent implementation of a recently developed technique for dating nuclear fuel based on its Cm isotope signature.
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