Separations technology development to support accelerator-driven transmutation concepts

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/380357· OSTI ID:380357

Venneri, F; Arthur, E; Bowman, C ^[1]

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This is the final report of a one-year Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This project investigated separations technology development needed for accelerator-driven transmutation technology (ADTT) concepts, particularly those associated with plutonium disposition (accelerator-based conversion, ABC) and high-level radioactive waste transmutation (accelerator transmutation of waste, ATW). Specific focus areas included separations needed for preparation of feeds to ABC and ATW systems, for example from spent reactor fuel sources, those required within an ABC/ATW system for material recycle and recovery of key long-lived radionuclides for further transmutation, and those required for reuse and cleanup of molten fluoride salts. The project also featured beginning experimental development in areas associated with a small molten-salt test loop and exploratory centrifugal separations systems.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 380357
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--96-3251; ON: DE97000290
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
ACCELERATORS
ACTINIDES
CENTRIFUGATION
FISSION PRODUCTS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
PLUTONIUM
PRECIPITATION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
SALTS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TRANSMUTATION