Fuel conditioning facility electrorefiner cadmium vapor trap operation.

Conference · Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:10579

Vaden, D E

Processing sodium-bonded spent nuclear fuel at the Fuel Conditioning Facility at Argonne National Laboratory-West involves an electrometallurgical process employing a molten LiCl-KCl salt covering a pool of molten cadmium. Previous research has shown that the cadmium dissolves in the salt as a gas, diffuses through the salt layer and vaporizes at the salt surface. This cadmium vapor condenses on cool surfaces, causing equipment operation and handling problems. Using a cadmium vapor trap to condense the cadmium vapors and reflux them back to the electrorefiner has mitigated equipment problems and improved electrorefiner operations.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10579
• Report Number(s): ANL/TD/CP-95422; TRN: US0103616
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Nuclear Society 3rd Topical Meeting DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel and Fissile Materials Management, Charleston, SC (US), 09/08/1998--09/11/1998; Other Information: PBD: 4 May 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
CADMIUM
SPENT FUELS
REPROCESSING
LIQUID METALS
LITHIUM CHLORIDES
POTASSIUM CHLORIDES
MOLTEN SALTS
EVAPORATION
VAPOR CONDENSATION
FOULING
COLD TRAPS
RECYCLING
ELECTROREFINING