HTGR fuel reprocessing pilot plant: results of the sequential equipment operation
The second sequential operation of the HTGR fuel reprocessing cold-dry head-end pilot plant equipment has been successfully completed. Twenty standard LHGTR fuel elements were crushed to a size suitable for combustion in a fluid bed burner. The graphite was combusted leaving a product of fissile and fertile fuel particles. These particles were separated in a pneumatic classifier. The fissile particles were fractured and reburned in a fluid bed to remove the inner carbon coatings. The remaining products are ready for dissolution and solvent extraction fuel recovery.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT03-76SF71053
- OSTI ID:
- 5955788
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A-15343; TRN: 79-018277
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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