Separation and recovery of uranium metal from spent light water reactor fuel via electrolytic reduction and electrorefining

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-265

  Herrmann, S D ^a   Li, S X ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrolytic reduc tion; Electrorefining; Spent light water reactor fuel

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUELS; FUSED SALTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; METALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; SEPARATION; URANIUM;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROREFINING; IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORIES; LIGHT WATER REACTOR (LWR); LIGHT WATER REACTOR FUELS; METAL OXIDES; MOLTEN SALT ELECTROLYTES; OXIDE FUELS;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 77956585236     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT171-247     Document Type: Article

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