원전에서 발생되고 있는 방사성폐기물 중 I의 정량을 위하여 시료의 특성에 맞는 최적의 시료 전처리 및 회수방법을 고찰하였다. 난용성시료 중 모의 잡고체와 수지에 함유된 요오드를 산침출법과 알칼리 용융방법으로 분리하여 회수율을 측정한 결과 , 의 회수율을 각각 나타내었다. 모의 농축폐액 중 1291를 pH 7의 음이온 수지에 흡착시켜 선택적으로 분리한 후 회수율을 측정한 결과 의 회수율을 나타내었다. 폐액 중 함유되어있는 고 농도의 붕소가 요오드 회수율에 미치는 영향을 조사한 결과 1,200 g/mL 이하의 붕소는 I의 분리 및 정량에 영향을 주지 않았다. 원전 내 현장시료인 폐수지 중 I 회수율을 칼럼용리방법으로 분리 후 측정한 결과 (RSD, )를 나타내었다.

Most of the low-level liquid radioactive wastes generated from PWR plants are classified into high or low total suspended solid(HTDS or LTDS), and into radiochemical and radioactive laundry waste. Although the evaporation process has a high decontami- nation ability, it has several problems such as corrosion, foam, and congestion. A new liquid waste disposal process using the ion-exchange demineralizer(IED), instead of the current evaporation process, has been introduced into the Yonggwang NPP #5 and 6. These two methods have been compared to understand the differences in this study. Aspects compared here were the released radioactivity amount of the liquid radioactive wastes, the dose of off-site residents, the decontamination factor, and the amount of the solid radioactive wastes. The IED system is designed to discharge higher radioactivity about 20% than the evaporating system, and the actual radioactivity released from the evaporating and IED system were 0.473mCi and 1.098mCi, respectively. The radioactivity released from the IED was 2.32 times higher than that of the evaporating system. The dose of off-site residents was mSv for the evaporating system, and mSv for IED. The decontamination factor(DF) of the evaporator is, in most cases, far lower than the lower limits of detection(LLD) with the Ge-Li detector. Due to the low concentration of the liquid wastes collected from the liquid waste system, the decontamination factor of IED is very low. Since there is not enough data on the amount of solid radioactive wastes generated by the evaporation system, the comparison on these two systems has been conducted on the basis of the design, and the comparison result was that the evaporating system generated more wastes about 40% than IED.