HTGR fuel reprocessing pilot plant: results of the sequential equipment operation

Technical Report · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5955788· OSTI ID:5955788

Strand, J B; Fields, D E; Kergis, C A

The second sequential operation of the HTGR fuel reprocessing cold-dry head-end pilot plant equipment has been successfully completed. Twenty standard LHGTR fuel elements were crushed to a size suitable for combustion in a fluid bed burner. The graphite was combusted leaving a product of fissile and fertile fuel particles. These particles were separated in a pneumatic classifier. The fissile particles were fractured and reburned in a fluid bed to remove the inner carbon coatings. The remaining products are ready for dissolution and solvent extraction fuel recovery.

• Research Organization: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76SF71053
• OSTI ID: 5955788
• Report Number(s): GA-A-15343; TRN: 79-018277
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
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COATED FUEL PARTICLES
CRUSHING
FUEL ELEMENTS
PILOT PLANTS
COMMINUTION
FUEL PARTICLES
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS COOLED REACTORS
GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
REACTOR COMPONENTS
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050800* - Nuclear Fuels- Spent Fuels Reprocessing