LOW-PRESSURE SUBLIMATION METHOD FOR CESIUM DECONTAMINATION OF CLAY MINERALS
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- SHIMOYAMA IWAO
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- HIRAO NORIE
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- BABA YUJI
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- IZUMI TOSHINORI
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- OKAMOTO YOSHIHIRO
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- YAITA TSUYOSHI
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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- SUZUKI SHINICHI
- Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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Abstract
We propose a low-pressure sublimation method as a new dry method to remove radioactive Cs from clay minerals. To develop this method, we used thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to study Fukushima vermiculite particles saturated and sorbed with nonradioactive Cs and heated in air and under low-pressure and high-vacuum conditions. The results of low-pressure TGA show a mass decrease due to Cs desorption, which is not observed for TGA conducted with the samples in air. The Cs desorption peak at 680℃ is confirmed by high-vacuum TDS. XPS measurements clarify that, on maintaining the samples at 800℃ for 3 min in high vacuum, approximately 40% of the Cs desorbs from the vermiculite. Furthermore, TDS results show that adding a mixed salt, NaCl-CaCl_2, shifts the Cs desorption peak by 180℃ to lower temperatures. These results demonstrate that the proposed method of low-pressure sublimation with added salts enables Cs decontamination of clay minerals at considerably lower temperatures than those in conventional dry methods.
Journal
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- Clay Science
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Clay Science 18 (3), 71-77, 2014
The Clay Science Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390282679089990784
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- NII Article ID
- 110009892224
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- NII Book ID
- AA00607148
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- ISSN
- 21863555
- 00098574
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- NDL BIB ID
- 026060060
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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