Conference Paper Published research by Fluid Tech CTO Mark Denton · 2011

R&D Back-ups for Design and Operation of the Kurion Media System for Early Construction of the Contaminated Water Treatment System in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

The research programme Japan's CRIEPI ran, at speed, to back the design and operation of the media system in Fukushima's first contaminated-water treatment train.

Authors Tadafumi Koyama, Takeshi Tsukada, Takatoshi Hijikata, Koichi Uozumi, Kenta Inagaki, Yasushi Nauchi, Keiji Ishikawa, Shoichi Ono, Shunichi Suzuki, Mark S. Denton, John Raymont, Richard Keenan, Gaetan Bonhomme Venue GLOBAL 2011 · December 2011
Ion Exchange & Isotope-Specific Media

Conference Paper

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 media system in the treatment system for highly contaminated water accumulated at Fukushima Daiichi, CRIEPI urgently carried out many research and development programmes, including measurement of the ion-exchange properties of the media against cesium in simulated contaminated water.

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

02 Why it matters

  • Verification under pressure: a national research institute measured the media's cesium performance before the system relied on it.
  • Simulated contaminated water: the tests used a simulant of the actual plant water rather than clean solutions.
  • Foundation for the journal series: this work fed the 2014 peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology.

03 Citation

Tadafumi Koyama, Takeshi Tsukada, Takatoshi Hijikata, Koichi Uozumi, Kenta Inagaki, Yasushi Nauchi, Keiji Ishikawa, Shoichi Ono, Shunichi Suzuki, Mark S. Denton, John Raymont, Richard Keenan, Gaetan Bonhomme. R&D Back-ups for Design and Operation of the Kurion Media System for Early Construction of the Contaminated Water Treatment System in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Proceedings of GLOBAL 2011, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, December 11–16, 2011.

04 Related

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