Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:20979626

Li, S X; Vaden, D; Westphal, B R; Fredrickson, G L; Benedict, R W; Johnson, T A ^[1]

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1. Materials and Fuels Complex, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415 (United States)

An integrated efficiency test was conducted with sodium bonded, spent EBR-II drive fuel elements. The major equipment involved in the test were the element chopper, Mk-IV electro-refiner, cathode processor, and casting furnace. Four electrorefining batches (containing 54.4 kg heavy metal) were processed under the fixed operating parameters that have been developed for this equipment based on over a decade's worth of processing experience. A mass balance across this equipment was performed. Actinide dissolution and recovery efficiencies were established based on the mass balance and chemical analytical results of various samples taken from process streams during the integrated efficiency test. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 20979626
• 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; 6 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

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ACTINIDES
EBR-2 REACTOR
EFFICIENCY
ELECTROREFINING
FUEL CYCLE
FUEL ELEMENTS
PYROCHEMICAL REPROCESSING