Dry Blending to Achieve Isotopic Dilution of Highly Enriched Uranium Oxide Materials
- Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Metallurgical Engineering Department
The end of the cold war produced large amounts of excess fissile materials in the United States and Russia. The Department of Energy has initiated numerous activities to focus on identifying material management strategies for disposition of these excess materials. To date, many of these planning strategies have included isotopic dilution of highly enriched uranium as a means of reducing the proliferation and safety risks. Isotopic dilution by dry blending highly enriched uranium with natural and/or depleted uranium has been identified as one non-aqueous method to achieve these risk (proliferation and criticality safety) reductions. This paper reviews the technology of dry blending as applied to free-flowing oxide materials.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Metallurgical Engineering Department
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-99ID-13727
- OSTI ID:
- 910938
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/CON-01-00482; TRN: US0704297
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: AiChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, TX (United States), 22-26 Apr 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
CRITICALITY
DEPLETED URANIUM
DILUTION
FISSILE MATERIALS
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM
MANAGEMENT
OXIDES
PLANNING
PROLIFERATION
SAFETY
Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
Disposition
Fissile Materials
Isotopic Dilution
Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
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