Strong acidic wastewater containing a radionuclide is generated from the decontamination of radioactively contaminated wastes or equipment. This wastewater is generally treated though a precipitation process using an alkali (alkali earth) hydroxides. In this precipitation process, a significant amount of alkali (alkali earth) sulfates are generated, which is the reason for the increase in the radioactive waste generation. In this study, a method for separating only radionuclides and metal ions from the wastewater was evaluated. For this reason, precipitation behaviors of radionuclides and metal ions by hydrazine injections were investigated using equilibrium calculations. In addition, behaviors of hydrazine decomposition after removal of radionuclides and metal ions were analyzed for recycling the wastewater.

• Woo-Shin Park(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Tack-Jin Kim(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Na-On Chang(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Hee-Chul Eun(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), University of Science and Technology (UST)) Corresponding author