Metal surface cleaning appears to be one of the major priorities for industries especially for nuclear industries. The research and the development of a new technology that is able to meet the actual requirements (i.e. waste volume minimization, liquid effluents and chemicals free process…) seems to be the main commitment. Currently, a wide panel of technologies already exists (e.g. blasting, disk sander, electrodecontamination…) but for some of them, the efficiency is limited (e.g, Dry Ice blasting) and for others, the wastes production (liquid and/or solid) remains an important issue. One answer could be the use of a LASER light process. Since a couple of years, the Clean-Up Business Unit of the AREVA group investigates this decontamination technology. Many tests have been already performed in inactive (i.e. on simulants such as paints, inks, resins, metallic oxides) or active conditions (i.e. pieces covered with a thick metallic oxide layer and metallic pieces covered with grease). The paper will describe the results obtained in term of decontamination efficiency during all our validation process. Metallographic characterizations (i.e. SEM, X-ray scattering) and radiological analysis will be provided. We will also focus our paper on the future deployment of the LASER technology and its commercial use at La Hague reprocessing facility in 2013.
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ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management
September 8–12, 2013
Brussels, Belgium
Conference Sponsors:
- Nuclear Engineering Division
- Environmental Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5602-4
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Metallic Surfaces Decontamination by Using LASER Light
Fabrice Moggia,
Fabrice Moggia
AREVA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Xavier Lecardonnel
Xavier Lecardonnel
AREVA, La Hague, France
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Fabrice Moggia
AREVA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Xavier Lecardonnel
AREVA, La Hague, France
Paper No:
ICEM2013-96301, V002T03A041; 5 pages
Published Online:
February 18, 2014
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Moggia, F, & Lecardonnel, X. "Metallic Surfaces Decontamination by Using LASER Light." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. Volume 2: Facility Decontamination and Decommissioning; Environmental Remediation; Environmental Management/Public Involvement/Crosscutting Issues/Global Partnering. Brussels, Belgium. September 8–12, 2013. V002T03A041. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICEM2013-96301
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