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Title: Efficacy of a solution-based approach for making sodalite waste forms for an oxide reduction salt utilized in the reprocessing of used uranium oxide fuel

Abstract

This paper describes the various approaches attempted to make solution-derived sodalite with a LiCl-Li2O oxide reduction salt used to dissolve used uranium oxide fuel so the uranium can be recovered and recycled. The approaches include modified sol-gel and solutionbased synthesis processes. As-made products were mixed with 5 and 10 mass% of a Na2O-B2O3- SiO2 glass binder and these, along with product without a binder, were heated using either a cold-press-and-sinter method or hot uniaxial pressing. The results demonstrate the limitation of sodalite yield due to the fast intermediate reactions between Na+ and Cl- to form halite in solution and Li2O and SiO2 to form lithium silicates (e.g., Li2SiO3 or Li2Si2O5) in the calcined and sintered pellets. The results show that pellets can be made with high sodalite fractions in the crystalline product (~92 mass%) and low porosities using a solution-based approach and this LiCl-Li2O salt but that the incorporation of Li into the sodalite is low.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
OSTI Identifier:
1177662
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1246593
Report Number(s):
INL/JOU-14-33815
Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115; PII: S0022311514006321; TRN: US1500494
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-05ID14517; AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 459; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; electrochemical; lithium chloride; sodalite

Citation Formats

Riley, Brian J., Pierce, David A., Frank, Steven M., Matyáš, Josef, and Burns, Carolyne A. Efficacy of a solution-based approach for making sodalite waste forms for an oxide reduction salt utilized in the reprocessing of used uranium oxide fuel. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.042.
Riley, Brian J., Pierce, David A., Frank, Steven M., Matyáš, Josef, & Burns, Carolyne A. Efficacy of a solution-based approach for making sodalite waste forms for an oxide reduction salt utilized in the reprocessing of used uranium oxide fuel. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.042
Riley, Brian J., Pierce, David A., Frank, Steven M., Matyáš, Josef, and Burns, Carolyne A. 2015. "Efficacy of a solution-based approach for making sodalite waste forms for an oxide reduction salt utilized in the reprocessing of used uranium oxide fuel". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.042. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1177662.
@article{osti_1177662,
title = {Efficacy of a solution-based approach for making sodalite waste forms for an oxide reduction salt utilized in the reprocessing of used uranium oxide fuel},
author = {Riley, Brian J. and Pierce, David A. and Frank, Steven M. and Matyáš, Josef and Burns, Carolyne A.},
abstractNote = {This paper describes the various approaches attempted to make solution-derived sodalite with a LiCl-Li2O oxide reduction salt used to dissolve used uranium oxide fuel so the uranium can be recovered and recycled. The approaches include modified sol-gel and solutionbased synthesis processes. As-made products were mixed with 5 and 10 mass% of a Na2O-B2O3- SiO2 glass binder and these, along with product without a binder, were heated using either a cold-press-and-sinter method or hot uniaxial pressing. The results demonstrate the limitation of sodalite yield due to the fast intermediate reactions between Na+ and Cl- to form halite in solution and Li2O and SiO2 to form lithium silicates (e.g., Li2SiO3 or Li2Si2O5) in the calcined and sintered pellets. The results show that pellets can be made with high sodalite fractions in the crystalline product (~92 mass%) and low porosities using a solution-based approach and this LiCl-Li2O salt but that the incorporation of Li into the sodalite is low.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.042},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1177662}, journal = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},
issn = {0022-3115},
number = C,
volume = 459,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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