Soonchunhyang University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation

Byung Gi Park

Hyun Jun Jung

Kyoung Won Jang

Sang Hun Shin

In Hyoung Rhee

Wook Jae Yoo

Bong Soo Lee

Gamma-ray sensing probes operating under the Cerenkov effect measure the burnup of spent nuclear fuel assemblies. The probes include an optical fiber that reacts to gamma rays coming from the spent nuclear fuel assembly and emit light via the Cerenkov effect. A scatterer surrounds the optical fiber to increase the light emitting efficiency of the optical fiber by the Compton electron scattering. A collimator composed of shielding material surrounds the scatterer. The collimator has a slit groove which is open in one direction for directing the gamma rays from the spent fuel assembly to the scatterer.

Gamma-ray sensing probe using Cerenkov effect and system for identifying burnup of spent nuclear fuel assembly using the same

Provided is a method for recovering high-concentration and high-purity amine from amine-containing waste water generated from nuclear power plants and thermal power plants. The method includes: capturing amine and concentrating waste water using a cation exchange resin; separating amine from the concentrated amine-containing waste water; and carrying out further separation of amine via distillation. The method may be applied to treat amine, which causes an increase in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total nitrogen concentration, drastically at the time of its generation from waste water of nuclear power plants and thermal power plants. In this manner, the method may prevent an increase in load of existing waste water treating plants and avoid a need for modifying the equipment in the existing plants. In addition, the method disclosed herein may allow recovery and reutilization of amine, injected continuously to prevent corrosion of water/vapor circulation systems of nuclear power plants and thermal power plants, thereby improving the cost-efficiency in such power plants.

Method for recovering amine from amine-containing waste water

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