In 2017, a short technical lecture - Carbon-14 release from irradiated steel - was presented by Eva de Visser-Týnovà from NRG Petten at the KONTEC 2017. Paper number 039 and poster.
The latest measurements of C-14 in spent ion exchange resisns in Swedish nuclear power plants is available here.
In 2017, Does carbon-14 release from irradiated Zircaloy claddings?- was presented by Tomofumi Suzuki-Muresan from Subatech at Migration 2017 the 16th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission products in the Geosphere held in Barcelona, Spain, September 10-15. The abstract can be found in the Book of Abstracts (p.49).
In 2017, Speciation of carbon-14 released from activated steels under conditions of a geological repository- was presented by Jens Mibus from NAGRA at Migration 2017 the 16th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission products in the Geosphere held in Barcelona, Spain, September 10-15. The abstract can be found in the Book of Abstracts (p.50-51).
In 2017, Behaviour of 14C released from spent ion exchange resins and resins fixed in a cement matrix- was presented by Peter Vecernik from UJV at Migration 2017 the 16th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission products in the Geosphere held in Barcelona, Spain, September 10-15. The abstract can be found in the Book of Abstracts (p.160).
In 2017, a short paper - Identification and formation of carbon-14 containing organic compounds during anoxic corrosion of activated steel in alkaline conditions - was presented by Erich Wieland from PSI at the International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, April 9-13. Their work has also been presented at EUROSAFE in Paris, November 6 and 7. A short article on the corrosion experiment with neutron irradiated steel can be found in the Proceedings (p.221-227).