Interim waste storage for the Integral Fast Reactor

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6374633

Benedict, R W; Phipps, R D ^[1]; Condiff, D W ^[2]

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1. Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (USA)
2. Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)

The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), which Argonne National Laboratory is developing, is an innovative liquid metal breeder reactor that uses metallic fuel and has a close coupled fuel recovery process. A pyrochemical process is used to separate the fission products from the actinide elements. These actinides are used to make new fuel for the reactor. As part of the overall IFR development program, Argonne has refurbished an existing Fuel Cycle Facility at ANL-West and is installing new equipment to demonstrate the remote reprocessing and fabrication of fuel for the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II). During this demonstration the wastes that are produced will be treated and packaged to produce waste forms that would be typical of future commercial operations. These future waste forms would, assuming Argonne development goals are fulfilled, be essentially free of long half-life transuranic isotopes. Promising early results indicate that actinide extraction processes can be developed to strip these isotopes from waste stream and return them to the IFR type reactors for fissioning. 1 fig.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6374633
• Report Number(s): ANL/CP-71451; CONF-910435-53; ON: DE91008813; TRN: 91-009386
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) international high level radioactive waste management conference, Las Vegas, NV (USA), 28 Apr - 3 May 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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