Dissolution of used nuclear fuel using recycled nitric acid

Almond, Philip M.; Daniel, Jr., William E.; Rudisill, Tracy S.

doi:10.1080/01496395.2017.1296869

Title: Dissolution of used nuclear fuel using recycled nitric acid

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An evaluation was performed on the feasibility of using HB-Line anion exchange column waste streams from Alternate Feedstock 2 (AFS-2) processing for the dissolver solution for used nuclear fuel (UNF) processing. The targeted UNF for dissolution using recycled solution are fuels similar to the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) fuel. Furthermore, the objectives of this experimental program were to validate the feasibility of using impure dissolver solutions with the MURR dissolution flowsheet to verify they would not significantly affect dissolution of the UNF in a detrimental manner.

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Almond, Philip M. ^[1]; Daniel, Jr., William E. ^[1]; Rudisill, Tracy S. ^[1]

Savannah River National Lab., Aiken, SC (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-03-20

Research Org.:: Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)

OSTI Identifier:: 1368683

Report Number(s):: SRNL-STI-2014-00448-M
Journal ID: ISSN 0149-6395

Grant/Contract Number:: AC09-08SR22470

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Separation Science and Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 53; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0149-6395

Publisher:: Taylor & Francis

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; dissolver; H-Canyon; UNF

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                    Almond, Philip M., Daniel, Jr., William E., and Rudisill, Tracy S. Dissolution of used nuclear fuel using recycled nitric acid.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Almond, Philip M., Daniel, Jr., William E., and Rudisill, Tracy S. Mon .  
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@article{osti_1368683,

  title        = {Dissolution of used nuclear fuel using recycled nitric acid},

  author       = {Almond, Philip M. and Daniel, Jr., William E. and Rudisill, Tracy S.},

  abstractNote = {An evaluation was performed on the feasibility of using HB-Line anion exchange column waste streams from Alternate Feedstock 2 (AFS-2) processing for the dissolver solution for used nuclear fuel (UNF) processing. The targeted UNF for dissolution using recycled solution are fuels similar to the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) fuel. Furthermore, the objectives of this experimental program were to validate the feasibility of using impure dissolver solutions with the MURR dissolution flowsheet to verify they would not significantly affect dissolution of the UNF in a detrimental manner.},

  doi          = {10.1080/01496395.2017.1296869},

  journal      = {Separation Science and Technology},

  number       = 12,

  volume       = 53,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {3}

}

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