Separations Chemistry Quarterly Progress Report: September - December, 1956

Technical Report · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1957

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4376037· OSTI ID:4376037

Motta, E. E. ^[1]; Brand, G. E. ^[1]; Buyers, A. G. ^[1]; Gardner, W. J. ^[1]

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1. North American Aviation, Inc., Canoga Park, CA (United States). Atomics International Div.

Efforts during the quarter brought the hot cave to completion and it was used for remotely operated kilogram-scale oxide dressing experiments on uranium fuel. In addition, an experiment using 33 kg of uranium alloy was conducted to determine the scavenging effect of uranium carbide on zirconium, niobium, and molybdenum and to study tilt-pour casting. The decontamination experiments involving fission product evaporation by arc melting have been directed toward the removal of fission products from irradiated thorium-uranium alloys and the determination of the protactinium loss from irradiated thorium. The radiochemical analyses for the salt bed extraction experiments on irradiated thorium uranium alloy are nearing completion. The molten arc electrolysis efforts on thorium consisted of experiments to determine the properties of container materials, electrolyte composition, and cathode alloy.

• Research Organization: North American Aviation, Inc., Canoga Park, CA (United States). Atomics International Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• DOE Contract Number: AT(11-1)-GEN-8
• NSA Number: NSA-11-007144
• OSTI ID: 4376037
• Report Number(s): NAA-SR--1872
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
CASTING
DECONTAMINATION
ELECTRIC ARCS
ELECTROLYSIS
EVAPORATION
FISSION PRODUCTS
FUELS
MELTING
MOLYBDENUM
NIOBIUM
PROTACTINIUM
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
REMOTE HANDLING
THORIUM ALLOYS
URANIUM
URANIUM ALLOYS
URANIUM CARBIDES
ZIRCONIUM