• DocumentCode
    2786000
  • Title

    Electrolytic way of processing depleted (bladed) uranium hexafluoride

  • Author

    Karelin, V.A. ; Knyazev, A.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Seversk Technol. Inst., Tomsk Polytech. Univ.
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    25
  • Lastpage
    27
  • Abstract
    In the nuclear industry at implementation of uranium-plutonium nuclear cycle there is a constant formation and accumulation in warehouses of huge quantities of depleted (bladed) uranium hexafluoride (UF6). The problem is how to use the bladed UF6. In the suggested method, bladed UF6 is evaporated from steel capacitances and submitted in a gas phase to an electrolytic furnace under a layer of an electrolyte; UF6 dissolves well in an offered electrolyte. The electrolyte is a melt of a low-melting eutectic of fluoride salts of alkaline and earth metals. The recovered uranium powder can be used as commodity outputs or stored as ingots
  • Keywords
    electrolysis; fission reactor fuel reprocessing; uranium compounds; UF6; accumulation; alkaline metal fluoride salts; bladed uranium hexafluoride; constant formation; dissolving; earth metal fluoride salts; electrolysis; electrolytic furnace; low-melting eutectic; steel capacitances evaporation; uranium powder; uranium-plutonium nuclear cycle; Chemical processes; Chemical technology; Corrosion; Fires; Hydrogen; Impurities; Powders; Power generation; Steel; Thermoelectricity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Modern Techniques and Technology, 2000. MTT 2000. Proceedings of the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-graduates and Young Scientists
  • Conference_Location
    Tomsk
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5789-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896028
  • Filename
    896028