Membrane Filtration Technology for Radioactive Liquid Waste

Abstract

All industrial, scientific and medical processes using radioactive material are responsible for producing nuclear waste which is detrimental to marine life. There is large quantity of water consumption in nuclear power plant due to huge amount of heat dissipation in the reactors. The other sources of radioactive waste can be obtained from the operations conducted by nuclear power stations and from mining and refining of uranium and thorium. While processing nuclear fuel, highly strong acid wastewater is produced and moreover, longer half-life radioisotopes are present in the water which is further discharged from the nuclear power plant into the environment. Radioactive waste should be dealt with safety due to its toxicity, therefore, there is an urgent need to adapt more advanced wastewater treatment methods. Evaporation, chemical treatment, filtration and ion-exchange are some of the common techniques to remove radioactive wastes from the water. The present study focusses on the membrane filtration technology to eradicate the nuclear waste from the water.

Keywords: Nuclear waste, radioactive waste, wastewater, membrane filtration, radioisotopes

Cite this Article

Gargi Rajvanshi, Ritika Gupta. Membrane Filtration Technology for Radioactive Liquid Waste. Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology. 2018; 8(3): 27–30p.