Radioactive nuclear plant waste, membrane application

A.K. Pabby, S.K. Gupta, S.R. Sawant, N.S. Rathore, P. Janardan, R.D. Changrani, P.K. Dey, Evaluation of membrane based processing of radioactive nuclear plant waste Case studies, in A.K. Pabby, S.S.H. Rizvi, A.M. Sastre (eds.). Handbook of Membrane Separations Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnological Applications, CRC Press, New York, 2008, pp. 933-943. 

Radioactive waste treatment applications have been reported [3-9] for the laundry wastes from nuclear power plants and mixed laboratory wastes. Another interesting application of reverse osmosis process is in decontamination of boric acid wastes from pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs), which allows for the recovery of boric acid, by using the fact that the latter is relatively undissociated and hence wdl pass with water through the membrane while most of the radioactivity is retained [10]. Reverse osmosis was evaluated for treating fuel storage pool water, and for low-level liquid effluents from reprocessing plants. 

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