Journal Article Published research by Fluid Tech CTO Mark Denton · 2014

Early Construction and Operation of Highly Contaminated Water Treatment System in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (I) — Ion Exchange Properties of KURION Herschelite in Simulating Contaminated Water

The first of a two-part peer-reviewed series documenting the research Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) ran to support the Fukushima water-treatment system.

Authors Takeshi Tsukada, Koichi Uozumi, Takatoshi Hijikata, Tadafumi Koyama, Ishikawa, Ono, Suzuki, Mark S. Denton, Rich Keenan, Gaëtan Bonhomme Venue Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology 51(7–8) · June 2014
Ion Exchange & Isotope-Specific Media

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The scientist behind this work is Fluid Tech's Chief Technology Officer. Mark S. Denton led media technology at Kurion, Inc. during the Fukushima Daiichi response (the affiliation printed on the paper), and the isotope-specific media science documented here is the foundation of Fluid Tech's WTZ® and FHA products. The media and systems in this paper were Kurion's; Fluid Tech's current products are described under Ion Exchange Media. The summary below is for reference only; full details are in the cited paper. See Dr. Denton's full publication timeline →

01 Overview

To support the design and operation of the decontamination system using KURION media for the treatment of highly contaminated water accumulated at Fukushima Daiichi, CRIEPI urgently carried out many research and development programmes. This paper reports the ion-exchange properties of the herschelite media in simulated contaminated water.

Summary written from the published abstract. It reproduces no proprietary data, methods, or results.

02 Why it matters

  • Research institute, refereed journal: the programme was run by CRIEPI, with the media supplier's engineers as co-authors, and published in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • Seawater is the hard case: Fukushima's water was saline, which competes with cesium for exchange sites. Media that worked here work in easier streams.
  • Lineage: the same inorganic ion-exchange science underlies Fluid Tech's WTZ® zeolite media today.

03 Citation

Takeshi Tsukada, Koichi Uozumi, Takatoshi Hijikata, Tadafumi Koyama, Ishikawa, Ono, Suzuki, Mark S. Denton, Rich Keenan, Gaëtan Bonhomme. Early Construction and Operation of Highly Contaminated Water Treatment System in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (I) — Ion Exchange Properties of KURION Herschelite in Simulating Contaminated Water. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology 51(7–8), 886–893, June 2014. DOI: 10.1080/00223131.2014.921582

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