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Title: Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles

Abstract

An integrated efficiency test was conducted with sodium bonded, spent EBR-II drive fuel elements. The major equipment involved in the test were the element chopper, Mk-IV electrorefiner, cathode processor, and casting furnace. Four electrorefining batches (containing 54.4 kg heavy metal) were processes under the fixed operating parameters that have been developed for this equipment based on over a decade’s worth of processing experience. A mass balance across this equipment was performed. Actinide dissolution and recovery efficiencies were established based on the mass balance and chemical analytical results of various samples taken from process streams during the integrated efficiency test.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE - NE
OSTI Identifier:
923480
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-07-12076
TRN: US0801842
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Global 2007,Boise, ID,09/09/2007,09/13/2007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; ACTINIDES; CASTING; CATHODES; DISSOLUTION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROREFINING; FUEL CYCLE; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAVY METALS; MASS BALANCE; PROCESSING; SODIUM; nuclear fuel cycle; sodium-bonded spent fuel

Citation Formats

Li, S X, Vaden, D, Benedict, R W, Johnson, T A, Westphal, B R, and Frederickson, Guy L. Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles. United States: N. p., 2007. Web.
Li, S X, Vaden, D, Benedict, R W, Johnson, T A, Westphal, B R, & Frederickson, Guy L. Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles. United States.
Li, S X, Vaden, D, Benedict, R W, Johnson, T A, Westphal, B R, and Frederickson, Guy L. 2007. "Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/923480.
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abstractNote = {An integrated efficiency test was conducted with sodium bonded, spent EBR-II drive fuel elements. The major equipment involved in the test were the element chopper, Mk-IV electrorefiner, cathode processor, and casting furnace. Four electrorefining batches (containing 54.4 kg heavy metal) were processes under the fixed operating parameters that have been developed for this equipment based on over a decade’s worth of processing experience. A mass balance across this equipment was performed. Actinide dissolution and recovery efficiencies were established based on the mass balance and chemical analytical results of various samples taken from process streams during the integrated efficiency test.},
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year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
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