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... .~ This report focuses on the processing technology and corresponding processing equipment utilized in ANE's demonstration project.2 SPENT FUEL OPERATIONS Summary of Progress Through October 1998 High-Throughput Electrorefiners Initial testing of the 25-inch (inner diameter) high-throughput electroref~ner (HTER)
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... The MWF test plan consists of attribute tests, characterization tests, accelerated tests, and service condition tests. A large number of the samples that will be tested differ only very slightly in minor alloying elements.
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... cans, production of salt-Ioaded zeolite within process specifications using the V-mixer, completion of a mill/cIassif~er process test matrix, use of a crusher for pre-mill salt processing, and routine production of dried zeolite at demonstration scale. A cooperative effort between ANL-W and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation will provide the first demonstration of radioactive waste processing with HIP in a remotely controlled hot cell.
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... Work is in progress to study oxide fuel reduction kinetics, optimum fuel basket design for oxide fuel reduction and electroref~ning, and development of methods for handling metallic lithium. Aluminum Alloy Spent Fuels The feasibility of electrometallurgical treatment of aluminum alloy spent fuels has been demonstrated in laboratory-scale experiments.
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... OVERALL PROGRESS IN ANL'S DEMONSTRATION PROJECT The committee concludes that the accomplishments reported by ANE concerning its EMT demonstration project are an accurate measure of progress toward the goal of meeting the success criteria. The committee believes that the conditions utilized to meet success criterion 2, goal 2 are too maid to yield sufficient information about the metal waste form under more stringent conditions.
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  • release rate
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  • oxide fuel
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  • form testing
  • uranium metal
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  • metallic lithium
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