Tellurium transport in the RCS under conditions relevant for severe nuclear accidents

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.103815" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.103815</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.103815" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.103815</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tellurium transport in the RCS under conditions relevant for severe nuclear accidents

Original language description

In the case of a severe nuclear power plant accident, tellurium is one of the more problematic and volatile fission products. If released it could become a health issue as it decays to iodine which accumulates in the thyroid gland. Research exists, that indicates tellurium likely interacts with caesium under severe accident conditions, thus it is important to further explore related phenomenon. In this work, tellurium was exposed to high temperature under oxidizing and inert conditions simulating severe accident conditions with and without airborne caesium iodide to determine the effect on the tellurium source term.nnThe effect of caesium iodide was noticeable on tellurium transport behaviour in the gas phase under oxidizing and inert conditions. Under humid oxidizing conditions with caesium iodide, no significant impact on the total aerosol mass transport was noticed. However, less tellurium was transported through the model primary circuit and a potentially new compound was observed on the filter located after this model. Comparing inert dry to humid with caesium iodide showed an increase in the total aerosol mass transport whereas there was a decrease noticed of the tellurium reaching the filter after the model primary circuit. In the latter case, new unidentified compound(s) correlated to caesium, iodine and tellurium were observed on the filter located after the model.nnIn this work, evidence was found that tellurium behaviour will be affected by caesium iodide under the investigated conditions. Moreover, it seems that under inert conditions the formed compounds may be stable at close to ambient temperatures. Unlike under oxidizing conditions, where dissociation likely occurred.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Progress in Nuclear Energy

ISSN

0149-1970

e-ISSN

1878-4224

Volume of the periodical

139

Issue of the periodical within the volume

SEP

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

103815

UT code for WoS article

000689718500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85109144084