Study for process and equipment design of wet gelation stages in vibropacking process

Tanimoto, Ryoji*; Kikuchi, Toshiaki*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; Amino, Masaki*; Yanai, Minoru*

Process and layout design of external wet gelation stages in vibropacking process was examined for the feasibility study of commercialized FBR cycle system. In tbhis study, following process stages for the oxide core fuel production line were covered, that is, solidification, washing, drying, calcination, reduction, sintering stages including interim storage of sintering particles and reagent recovery stage.