EUROCHEMIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Progress Report for January through June 1960

Technical Report · Tue Jul 19 04:00:00 EDT 1960

OSTI ID:4126493

Nicholson, E L; Shank, E M

The status of the Eurochemic organization and the preliminary plant design are summarized. The Eurochemic charter was ratified by all participating countries and the company organized with the General Manager's Office in Brussels and with three departments (administrative, technical, and research) in Mol. Project IV (Report ORNL-CF60-2-72) remained essentially unchanged except for the stated capacity, which is now 350 kg/day of natural uranium in aluminum or magnesium cladding and 250 kg/day of slightly enriched power reactor fuels clad in Zircaloy-2 or stainless steel. Contract negotiations with St. Gobain of France were completed in April, and architect-engineering work was started in May on a detailed 6-month pre-project study. Construction of the bridge to the plant area and the office building is in progress. Laboratory-scale development work on ion exchange for plutonium purification was concluded and trilaurylamine extraction is being studied as an alternative to ion exchange. Nonradioactive testing of flowsheets with uranium in miniature mixer-settlers is continuing. Since Eurochemic has not signed a new agreement with the USAEC, the future of the program is uncertain. (auth)

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn.
• NSA Number: NSA-15-000273
• OSTI ID: 4126493
• Report Number(s): CF-60-8-2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ALKYL RADICALS
ALUMINUM
AMINES
CHEMISTRY
ENRICHMENT
EUROCHEMIC
FUELS
ION EXCHANGE
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MAGNESIUM
MIXER-SETTLERS
MIXING
NATURAL URANIUM FUEL
PLUTONIUM
POWER
REACTORS
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
STAINLESS STEELS
TESTING
URANIUM
ZIRCALOY