Development of a zirconium recycle process from zircaloy waste of a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)

Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-357

  Fujita, Reiko ^a   Nakamura, Hitoshi ^a   Haruguchi, Yoshiko ^a   Takahashi, Ryota ^a   Utsunomiya, Kazuhiro ^a   Sato, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Ito, Yasuhiko ^b   Goto, Takuya ^c   Terai, Takayuki ^d   Ogawa, Satoru ^e  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clearance level; Decontamination; Electrorefining; Molten salts; Recycle; Storage container; Zircaloy; Zirconium wastes

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; CONTAINERS; DECONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RECYCLING;

CHANNEL BOXES; ELECTROREFINING; MOLTEN SALTS; SPENT FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS;

ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 36148992193     PISSN: 13472879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/taesj.J06.031     Document Type: Article

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