In-Line Uranium Monitoring in Reprocessing Waste Solution by Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Fluorometry

Abstract

In-line monitoring by fluorometry of uranium concentration in reprocessing waste solution has been realized. The reduction of U02 2+ fluorescence by coexisting ions and solution temperature can be corrected by measuring fluorescence lifetime, absorbance of excitation beam wavelength and absorbance of fluorescence wavelength. The method applicability was examined by using a sample solution simulating the waste solution of the codecontamination process. When the coexisting ion concentrations were increased in the sample solution which included 50 mg//of uranium, the corrected value of the uranium concentration was constant in the range of 0~1.5 times the coexisting ion concentrations. When the temperature was changed in the range of 30~45°C, the corrected value was also constant. The precision of the correcting method was ±15%'. These results verified that the correcting method could be applied to in-line monitoring of uranium concentration even though species and amounts of the coexisting ions and solution...