Cleaning of wastewater in nuclear power plants

A large amount of wastewater is produced in nuclear power plants. This contains low-radioactive impurities in very high dilution. In order to reduce both the high disposal costs and the amount of waste, the radioactive water is concentrated using large-scale rotary evaporators. In this way, a large proportion of the water can be recovered and only the concentrates have to be disposed of.

A nuclear power plant in Northern Germany* operates with several Distimatic Industrial Platinum 8 packages. This results in a distillation rate of up to 4.4 liters of water per hour per system.

Distimatic Industrial Platinum 8 package

• High-performance glassware set with riser tube for the best possible separation of impurities and water

• Processing of large quantities of wastewater through the automatic make-up in the evaporation flask

• Recover up to 105 liters of water per day safely and unattended in 24/7 operation