Pyrochemical Separations Workshop Proceedings -- Avignon, France -- 14-16 March 2000

The industrial treatment of spent nuclear fuel is presently performed using different wet chemical processes. Alternative dry processes, using pyrochemical methods, have received some attention due to their potential advantages in terms of plant design and criticality safety, as well as radiation do...

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Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Workshop on Pyrochemical Separations, Nuclear Energy Agency
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 2001.
Series:Nuclear Science,
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Summary:The industrial treatment of spent nuclear fuel is presently performed using different wet chemical processes. Alternative dry processes, using pyrochemical methods, have received some attention due to their potential advantages in terms of plant design and criticality safety, as well as radiation dose. Recent progress in the transmutation of long-lived fission products and minor actinides has brought renewed interest in pyrochemical methods, as effective transmutation will be based on multi-recycling of the fuel with very high burn-up and short cooling times, conditions under which pyrochemical methods offer various advantages over wet processes. Studies of pyrochemical processes have so far been carried out at laboratory level. Considerable R&D work is still required in order to upgrade these processes to the current level of industrial aqueous processing.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages)
ISBN:9781280034282
9786610034284
9789264189737