METHOD OF PRODUCING URANIUM METAL BY ELECTROLYSIS
Abstract
A process is given for making uranium metal from oxidic material by electrolytic deposition on the cathode. The oxidic material admixed with two moles of carbon per one mole of uranium dioxide forms the anode, and the electrolyte is a mixture of from 40 to 75% of calcium fluoride or barium fluoride, 15 to 45% of uranium tetrafluoride, and from 10 to 20% of lithium fluoride or magnesium fluoride; the temperature of the electrolyte is between 1150 and 1175 deg C. (AEC)
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4784609
- Patent Number(s):
- 3052611
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C25 - ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES C25C - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC PRODUCTION, RECOVERY OR REFINING OF METALS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-030490
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- CHEMISTRY; ANODES; BARIUM FLUORIDES; CALCIUM FLUORIDES; CARBON; CATHODES; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITHIUM FLUORIDES; MAGNESIUM FLUORIDES; MIXING; PRODUCTION; URANIUM; URANIUM DIOXIDE; URANIUM TETRAFLUORIDE
Citation Formats
Piper, R D. METHOD OF PRODUCING URANIUM METAL BY ELECTROLYSIS. United States: N. p., 1962.
Web.
Piper, R D. METHOD OF PRODUCING URANIUM METAL BY ELECTROLYSIS. United States.
Piper, R D. Sat .
"METHOD OF PRODUCING URANIUM METAL BY ELECTROLYSIS". United States.
@article{osti_4784609,
title = {METHOD OF PRODUCING URANIUM METAL BY ELECTROLYSIS},
author = {Piper, R D},
abstractNote = {A process is given for making uranium metal from oxidic material by electrolytic deposition on the cathode. The oxidic material admixed with two moles of carbon per one mole of uranium dioxide forms the anode, and the electrolyte is a mixture of from 40 to 75% of calcium fluoride or barium fluoride, 15 to 45% of uranium tetrafluoride, and from 10 to 20% of lithium fluoride or magnesium fluoride; the temperature of the electrolyte is between 1150 and 1175 deg C. (AEC)},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1962},
month = {9}
}
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