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Optimization of Purex-process aimed at volume reduction of aqueous waste from NPP spent fuel reprocessing

Conference ·
OSTI ID:100856
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  1. A.A. Bochvar Scientific Research Inst. of Inorganic Materials, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  2. Khlopin Radium Inst., St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  3. Russia Design and Research Inst. of Complex Power Technology, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
Different modifications of Purex-process are used world-wide as a process of NPP spent fuel reprocessing. As a rule, the process of reprocessing involves the following stages: cycle of U and Pu purification and separation; one or two affinage cycles in uranium line; one or two affinage cycles in plutonium line; final product production stations. The modified Purex-process conception which provides radical liquid radioactive waste volume reduction, without using evaporator processes, was considered.
OSTI ID:
100856
Report Number(s):
CONF-930906--; ISBN 0-7918-0691-X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English