RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM ZIRCONIUM-URANIUM NUCLEAR FUELS
Abstract
An improvement was made in a process of recovering uranium from a uranium-zirconium composition which was hydrochlorinated with gsseous hydrogen chloride at a temperature of from 350 to 800 deg C resulting in volatilization of the zirconium, as zirconium tetrachloride, and the formation of a uranium containing nitric acid insoluble residue. The improvement consists of reacting the nitric acid insoluble hydrochlorination residue with gaseous carbon tetrachloride at a temperature in the range 550 to 600 deg C, and thereafter recovering the resulting uranium chloride vapors. (AEC)
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4802608
- Patent Number(s):
- 3043653
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-027114
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- CHEMISTRY; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINATION; EVAPORATION; GASES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; NITRIC ACID; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RECOVERY; REPROCESSING; RESIDUES; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM; URANIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM CHLORIDES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; VAPORS; WASTE PROCESSING; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM CHLORIDES
Citation Formats
Gens, T A. RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM ZIRCONIUM-URANIUM NUCLEAR FUELS. United States: N. p., 1962.
Web.
Gens, T A. RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM ZIRCONIUM-URANIUM NUCLEAR FUELS. United States.
Gens, T A. Tue .
"RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM ZIRCONIUM-URANIUM NUCLEAR FUELS". United States.
@article{osti_4802608,
title = {RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM ZIRCONIUM-URANIUM NUCLEAR FUELS},
author = {Gens, T A},
abstractNote = {An improvement was made in a process of recovering uranium from a uranium-zirconium composition which was hydrochlorinated with gsseous hydrogen chloride at a temperature of from 350 to 800 deg C resulting in volatilization of the zirconium, as zirconium tetrachloride, and the formation of a uranium containing nitric acid insoluble residue. The improvement consists of reacting the nitric acid insoluble hydrochlorination residue with gaseous carbon tetrachloride at a temperature in the range 550 to 600 deg C, and thereafter recovering the resulting uranium chloride vapors. (AEC)},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1962},
month = {7}
}
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