Precipitation behaviors of fission products by phosphate conversion in LiCl-KCl medium

Amamoto, Ippei; Kofuji, Hirohide  ; Myochin, Munetaka; Takasaki, Yasushi*; Yano, Tetsuji*; Terai, Takayuki*

The separation technique by phosphate conversion of FP from NaCl-KCl or NaCl-2CsCl as the medium of the spent electrolyte of pyroprocessing is being developed at RIAR in Russia. To ascertain the technical feasibility of applying this RIAR's method for recycling of spent electrolyte which composed of FP such as AL, ALE, and REE and 3LiCl-2KCl as the medium, preliminary study was undertaken at JAEA. This study occupies an auxiliary role which is forwarded as a part of FaCT Project of Japan. As a first approach, the thermodynamic analysis to understand the behaviours of FP in the electrolyte was carried out after literature research and acquisition of required thermodynamic properties. Preliminary experiment was then undertaken to observe the conversion behaviours of chlorides to phosphate. In this paper, these results are shown and are evaluated to discern the feasibility of the phosphate conversion method.