During the dismantling of nuclear facilities, a large quantity of radioactive concrete is generated and chelating agents are required for the decontamination process. However, disposing of environmentally persistent chelated wastes without eliminating the chelating agents might increase the rate of radionuclide migration. This paper reports a rapid and straightforward ion chromatography method for the quantification of citric acid (CA), a commonly used chelating agent. The findings demonstrate acceptable recovery yields, linearities, and reproducibilities of the simulated samples, confirming the validity of the proposed method. The selectivity of the proposed method was confirmed by effectively separating CA from gluconic acid, a common constituent in concretes. The limits of detection and quantification of the method were 0.679 and 2.059 mg·L−1, respectively, while the recovery yield, indicative of the consistency between theoretical and experimental concentrations, was 85%. The method was also employed for the quantification of CA in a real concrete sample. These results highlight the potential of this approach for CA detection in radioactive concrete waste, as well as in other types of nuclear wastes.

An evaluation of the concrete strength has very important meaning in the maintenance and the structural safety. The reliability of ferroconcrete building is weakening and enlarging the life is strongly demanded due to the early deterioration of concrete. Like this social demand, concrete strength presumption is being indirectly executed using the result in parallel with the concrete pouring by material age. This data is usually different as concrete poured practically and the way of hardening and curing. Although existing concrete strength presumption formula is proposed, the material used and the concrete strength is different. And as a matter of remicon, the concrete strength varies according to the site and the way of curing. So the objective of this research is strength evaluation of the structural body concrete according to the concrete pouring and curing temperature change seasonally after using the system which evaluates the structural body concrete strength which is applied the transparent junction-separation mold that is presented. Also there is an objective to present the fundamental data for the constructional quality technique proposal of the structural body concrete developed in relation to field specimen and the strength evaluation method by non-breaking.