Method for cleaning bomb-reduced uranium derbies
Abstract
The concentration of carbon in uranium metal ingots induction cast from derbies prepared by the bomb-reduction of uranium tetrafluoride in the presence of magnesium is effectively reduced to less than 100 ppM by removing residual magnesium fluoride from the surface of the derbies prior to casting. This magnesium fluoride is removed from the derbies by immersing them in an alkali metal salt bath which reacts with and decomposes the magnesium fluoride. A water quenching operation followed by a warm nitric acid bath and a water rinse removes the residual salt and reaction products from the derbies.
- Inventors:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5349423
- Assignee:
- TIC; ERA-05-030843; EDB-80-089967
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; URANIUM; CLEANING; ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MAGNESIUM FLUORIDES; SALTS; ACTINIDES; ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; ELEMENTS; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METALS; NONMETALS; 360101* - Metals & Alloys- Preparation & Fabrication
Citation Formats
Banker, J G, Wigginton, H L, Beck, D E, and Holcombe, C E. Method for cleaning bomb-reduced uranium derbies. United States: N. p.,
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Banker, J G, Wigginton, H L, Beck, D E, & Holcombe, C E. Method for cleaning bomb-reduced uranium derbies. United States.
Banker, J G, Wigginton, H L, Beck, D E, and Holcombe, C E. .
"Method for cleaning bomb-reduced uranium derbies". United States.
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abstractNote = {The concentration of carbon in uranium metal ingots induction cast from derbies prepared by the bomb-reduction of uranium tetrafluoride in the presence of magnesium is effectively reduced to less than 100 ppM by removing residual magnesium fluoride from the surface of the derbies prior to casting. This magnesium fluoride is removed from the derbies by immersing them in an alkali metal salt bath which reacts with and decomposes the magnesium fluoride. A water quenching operation followed by a warm nitric acid bath and a water rinse removes the residual salt and reaction products from the derbies.},
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