Experimental Findings on the Migration of Gaseous Wet I2 and CH3I
Im, Hee-Jung; Yeon, Jei-Won; Song, Jin-Ho; Thang, Pham Tien; Kim, Hong-Hyun
Proceedings of the KNS 2017 Fall Meeting2017
Proceedings of the KNS 2017 Fall Meeting2017
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[en] The following experiments were planned to look at the effects of water-droplets sizes and radiation field on the migration of volatile I2 and CH3I that may occur during an accident in the nuclear-reactor containment. 0, 38, 42, and 48 μm sizes of water droplets could be generated when 0, 80, 60, and 40 kHz frequencies were applied at a nominal operating condition (20 μm orifice diameter, 20 cm3 syringe capacity, 8.2 x 10-4 cm/s syringe pump run speed, and 0.139 cm3/min liquid feed rate). The formed monodisperse water droplets were well dispersed with 15 x 100 cm3/min air and diluted 40 L/min air before significant coagulation occurs. Gases of I2 and CH3I were generated at about 60.deg.C and room temperature respectively and then led to the cylindrical water jet with the volumetric flowrate of 5cc/min. The amount of transferred gaseous iodine by adsorption on water droplets was strongly influenced by the existence of water. CH3I and H2O can decompose into various chemical species on exposure to external radiation, so a transferred amount of CH3I on water droplets were lower under the combination of 10 μCi Na-22, 1 μCi Cd-109, 1 μCi Cs-137, and 1 μCi Co-57 radioactive source discs than the case of absence of the radiation condition as shown in Figure 2. However, a relationship between the transferred volatile CH3I concentrations and water droplet sizes showed the same trend to the case of absence of the radiation condition. Hydrolysis reaction rates of I2 and CH3I with water are very slow in comparison with physical weathering and physical dissolution, and they are only slightly soluble in water.
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Korean Nuclear Society, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); [1 CD-ROM]; Oct 2017; [2 p.]; 2017 Fall Meeting of the KNS; Kyungju (Korea, Republic of); 25-27 Oct 2017; Available from KNS, Daejeon (KR); 3 refs, 2 figs
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