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2 Background and Development of Electrometallurgical Technology for the Treatment of Spent Nuclear Fuel
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... 7. 5National Research Council, Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: A Preliminary Assessment of the Promise of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Fuel, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995, Appendix 1.
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... The stainless steel from the cladding, most of the Zr, and the noble metals remain in the anode baskets. The U3+ is reduced to the metal and 6National Research Council, Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: A Preliminary Assessment of the Promise of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Fuel, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995, p.
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... Elements That Can Be Electrotransported Efficiently Elements That Remain As Metals (less stable chlorides) BaC12 87.9 CmC13 64.0 CdC12 32.3 CsC1 87.8 PuC13 62.4 FeC12 29.2 RbC1 87.0 AmC13 62.1 NbC15 26.7 KC1 86.7 NpC13 58.1 MoC14 16.8 SrC12 84.7 UC13 55.2 TcC14 11.0 LiC1 82.5 ZrC14 46.6 RhC13 10.0 NaC1 81.2 PdC12 9.0 CaC12 80.7 RuC14 6.0 LaC13 70.2 PrC13 69.0 CeC13 68.6 NdC13 67.9 YC13 65.1 SOURCE: Reproduced from National Research Council, An Assessment of Continued R&D into an Electrometallurgical Approach for Treating DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995, p.
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... The baseline metal waste form contains ~15 wt % Zr; this requires that anode basket hulls from the blanket processing have Zr added in the casting furnace. At an appropriate time, the salt containing the Pu, TRU elements, alkalis and alkaline earths, and some fission products is removed from the refiner, mixed with zeolite, heated to adsorb the salt into the zeolite, and then mixed with glass and hot isostatically pressed into a glass-bonded sodalite (GBS)
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... RE Fission Products Uranium Fraction Fe/Zr Metal Waste Form . ~ ~ ~ 1 Geologic Storage I GBZ Waste Form l 21 | | Cast Metal Ingot ~ | Cast Metal Ingot nterim Storage _ ~ | Interim Storage FIGURE 2.2 Original ANL electrometallurgical process scheme.
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... 221. 16National Research Council, An Evaluation of the Electrometallurgical Approach for Treatment of Excess Weapons Plutonium, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1996.
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... 2. 19National Research Council, An Evaluation of the Electrometallurgical Approach for Treatment of Excess Weapons Plutonium, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1996.
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  • doe spent
  • electrometallurgical technique
  • electrometallurgical approach

  • fission products
  • spent nuclear
  • nuclear fuel
  • waste form
  • electrometallurgical techniques

  • international security
  • arms control
  • argonne national
  • treating doe
  • molten salt

  • electrometallurgical process
  • waste forms
  • anode basket
  • stainless steel
  • originally proposed

  • transuranic elements
  • electrometallurgical treatment
  • spent fuels
  • cadmium cathode
  • casting furnace

  • plutonium disposition
  • electrometallurgical technology
  • driver fuel
  • preliminary assessment
  • tru elements


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