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Professor

PROFILE

Radioactive Waste Treatment

Adjunct Professor

Quantum Energy Chemical Engineering

Lee, Keunyoung (이근영)

Radioactive Waste Treatment

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Current Position

Research Interest

2011 ~ present Senior/Principal Researcher, KAERI
2017 ~ present Research Leader, Decommissioning Waste Technology Lab., KAERI
2023 ~ present Adjunct Professor, Quantum Energy Chemical Engineering, UST

Education

2004 B.S. Geosystem Engineering, CNU
2006 M.S. Environmental Science and Engineering, GIST
2010 Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering, GIST

Work Experience

2010 ~ 2011 Visiting Researcher, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany

Project

(On-going)
방사성 콘크리트폐기물 가열분쇄 기반 고도감용 공정 실증, ‘23~26, 4 억 (PI)

(Completed)
해체폐기물 처리 융복합 소재 및 공정 개발, ‘22~24, 63 억 (PI)

Publication

(International Journal)

SOHIO process legacy waste treatment: Uranium recovery using ion exchange[JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY,2020-09-10]

Pilot-scale treatment of a spent uranium catalyst formally used in the SOHIO process: Pilot plant verfication of the SENSEI process[ACS OMEGA,2020-05-08]

Behaviour of uranyl phosphate containing solid waste during thermal treatment for the purpose of sentencing and immobilisation: Preliminary results[Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology,2020-09-01]

Effective removal of radioactive cesium from contaminated water by synthesized composite adsorbent and its thermal treatment for enhanced storage stability[ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH,2020-08-29]

Thermal decontamination of spent activated carbon contaminated with radiocarbon and tritium[PROCESSES,2020-10-28]

Development of carbonization and a relatively high-temperature halogenation process for the removal of radionuclides from spent ion exhcnage resins[PROCESSES,2021-01-05]

Extraction behavior of uranyl ion from nitric acid medium by TBP extractant in ionic liquid[Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology,2020-12-01]

Feasibility study on the volume reduction of radioactive concrete wastes using thermomechanical and chemical sequential process[JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,2021-05-26]

Targeted separation of radionuclides from contaminated concrete waste generated from decommissioning of nuclear power plant[JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY,2021-07-27]

UK civil nuclear decommissioning, a blueprint for Korea's nuclear decommissioning future?: Part I - Nuclear legacy, strategies, and the NDA[Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology,2021-09-01]

A study on immobilization of 14CO2 using inorganic materials[JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY,2021-04-21]

Selective removal of Na+ by NaTi2(PO4)3-MWCNT composite hollow-fiber membrane electrode in capacitive deionization[NPJ CLEAN WATER,2022-04-19]

Recycling of Li(Ni,Co,Mn)O2 via a chlorination technique[KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,2022-02-03]

Uranyl peroxide ((UO2)(O2)4H2O; UO4) precipitation for uranium sequestering: formation and physicochemical characterization[JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY,2022-04-30]

Chlorination behavior of Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2[KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,2022-05-06]

Assessment of chlorination technique for decontamination of radioactive concrete waste using simulated concrete waste[PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY,2022-10-18]

UK civil nuclear decommissioning, a blueprint for Korea's nuclear decommissioning future?: Part II - UK's progress and implications for Korea[Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology,2022-03-01]

Immobilization of Cs-137 as a crystalline pollucite surrounded by amorphous aluminosilicate[ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH,2023-01-14]

Chemical precipitation-based treatment of acidic wastewater generated by chemical decontamination of radioactive concrete[JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,2023-06-07]

Characterization of glass composite material by pressureless sintering of soil and its application to uranium contaminated soil as a waste form[Radiochimica Acta,2024-01-25]

Professional Activities

(2016~2017) 한국방사성폐기물학회 간사

(2022~2023) 한국방사성폐기물학회 연구분과위원

(2025~present) 한국방사성폐기물학회 평의원

Teaching Experiences

Decommissioning Waste Treatment Technology (KAERI, 2018-2024)

Honors and Awards

Research Merit Award (2020), KAERI

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