Actinide recovery experiments with bench-scale liquid cadmium cathode in real fission product-laden molten salt

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-199

  Li, Shelly X ^a   Herrmann, S D ^a   Goff, K M ^a   Simpson, M F ^a   Benedict, R W ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fission product laden salt; Group actinide recovery; Liquid cadmium cathode

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; CADMIUM; CATHODES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; FISSION PRODUCTS; LIQUIDS; PLUTONIUM; RECOVERY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CATHODE VOLTAGES; MOLTEN ELECTROLYTES; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; SEPARATION FACTORS; TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS; VARIABLE CONDITIONS; VARIABLE PARAMETERS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

EID: 61349138800     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT09-A4085     Document Type: Article

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