The Chemical Processing Facility (CPF); The Basic research field for the advanced fuel cycle recycle technology

Koizumi, Tsutomu; Kitajima, Takafumi; Nomura, Kazunori  ; Kitawaki, Shinichi 

Chemical Processing Facility (CPF) is the facility for the hot experiment. This facility has the cells where irradiated fast reactor fuel can be treated and globeboxes and foods where plutonium and uranium can be treated. The demonstration experiments of the conventional PUREX reprocessing process with fast reactor fuel there from 1982. After that, renovation of CPF was carried out until 2002. From then, the development of the advanced aqueous reprocessing process such as dissolution with high HM concentration, crystallization of U, MA separation and direct extraction using supercritical fluid has been carried out. the development of metal electrorefining process has been carried out, too. The outcomes of the development is used as the fundamental data for fact reactor cycle technology development project (FaCT).