Plutonium scrap recovery at Savannah River: Past, present, and vision of the future

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5030020

Gray, L W; Gray, J H; Blancett, A L; Lower, M W; Rudisill, T S

As a result of the changing requirement, plus environmental and regulatory commitments, SRP now has essentially completed its paradigm shift. SRP has been transformed from primarily a reprocessor of irradiated uranium targets to primarily a reprocessor of non-specification plutonium. This is the mission which will carry SRP into the 21st Century. Accomplishment of the defined goals for the three-pronged RandD program will achieve several objectives: exploit new processes for recovering low-grade scraps; enhance SRP's position to incorporate pyrochemical processes where they are attractive or beneficial to plant scrap recovery; provide SRL/SRP with a capability to develop compatible aqueous pyrochemical processes; identify material compatibility requirements for the incorporation of pyrochemical processes at SRP; promote development and demonstration of improved NDA instrumentation to accurately measure plutonium holdups in solid residues; identify and implement the technology required for reagent preparation and atmospheric quality control; provide a means to compare economic options for emerging new processes; and as a result, identify process steps which will also put SRP in a position to readily adapt to changing plutonium missions.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5030020
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-88-64-Rev.2; CONF-880537-5-Rev.2; ON: DE88010615
• Resource Relation: Conference: 12. actinide separations conference, Naperville, IL, USA, 9 May 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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