HOT CELL DEMONSTRATION OF ZIRFLEX AND SULFEX PROCESSES. Report No. 2

Technical Report · Thu Jan 25 23:00:00 EST 1962

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4790919· OSTI ID:4790919

Goode, J H; Baillie, M G

Twelve Zircaloy-2 clad UO/sub 2/ specimens, irradiated in the NRK to about 15,500 Mwd/t and decayed about 9 months, were declad and core dissolutions completed. The pellets were fractured brt were essentially intact (i.e. had not fallen apart) when declad. The U losses ramged from 0.03 to 0.09%, due to solubility of U(IV) in the Zinflex reagent, and the U losses from 0.01 to 0.04%. The core pellets were 99.5% dlssolved in 4 M HNO/sub 3/-0.1M Al(NO/sub 3/)/sub 3/ in 5 hr, which was slightly faster than the rate of unirradiated pellets. (auth)

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• NSA Number: NSA-16-011789
• OSTI ID: 4790919
• Report Number(s): ORNL-TM-130
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALUMINUM NITRATES
CANNING
CHEMISTRY
COATING
DECAY
FUEL CANS
FUELS
HOT CELLS
IRRADIATION
LEACHING
LOSSES
NITRIC ACID
NRX
PELLETS
PLATING
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOCHEMISTRY
REACTORS
REMOTE HANDLING
REPROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLUBILITY
SOLUTIONS
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
SULFEX PROCESS
URANIUM DIOXIDE
VELOCITY
WASTE PROCESSING
ZIRCALOY
ZIRFLEX PROCESS