Pyro-chemistry assessment at CEA - Last experimental results
- CEA/DEN/VRH/DRCP, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Ceze Cedex (France)
- CEA/DEN/VRH/DTCD, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Ceze Cedex (France)
- CEA/DEN/SAC/DDIN, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Ceze Cedex (France)
Initially assessed in the frame of the first French act on radioactive waste management (Dec. 91), the pyro-technology is now perceived by the Nuclear Energy Directorate of the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) as a potential alternative to hydrometallurgy in two applications: (i) reprocessing of irradiated targets or dedicated fuels used for the minor actinides transmutation, (ii) reprocessing of Generation IV spent nuclear fuels (e.g. carbide fuel proposed for Gas cooled Fast Reactor or oxide fuel proposed for Sodium Fast Reactor). The R and D program is now mainly focused on the latter application. This paper gives the last experimental results on actinides/fission products separation assessment in molten fluorides either by chemical reductive extraction or electrolysis. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 20979622
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems (GLOBAL 2007), Boise - Idaho (United States), 9-13 Sep 2007; Other Information: Country of input: France; 9 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of GLOBAL 2007 conference on advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems, 1873 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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