Development of U and Pu co-processing process; Demonstration of U, Pu and Np Co-recovery with centrifugal contactors

Kudo, Atsunari; Kurabayashi, Kazuaki; Yanagibashi, Futoshi; Sasaki, Shunichi; Sato, Takehiko; Fujimoto, Ikuo; Obu, Tomoyuki

Proceedings of 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2017) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2017/04

The Co-processing process is the extraction process to recover Pu/U mixed product solution with given Pu/U ratio for improving of nuclear proliferation resistance. In addition, Np is also recovered with U and Pu because Np is one of minor actinides and a long-lived radionuclide and Np has the extractability into TBP solvent. Development of its flowsheet achieves to decrease environmental effect of waste materials. The orientation of development about Co-processing process is to demonstrate of reprocessing the future spent fuels from a LWR, a LWR-MOX hybrid, and a FR-MOX with one cycle. We demonstrated by use of miniature reflux-type centrifugal contactors at the partitioning unit. The test conditions of the Pu/U ratio in the loaded solvents were 1%, 3%, and 5% considering the composition of spent fuels. We used the HAN as the reductant of Np (VI) for back extraction. The results of these tests were very good. We got the prospect of U, Pu, and Np Co-processing flowsheet.

Design of a CW high beam powerelectron linac

Wang, Y.

PNC TN9410 92-039, 26 Pages, 1992/02

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A test CW electron linac is designed to develop a high power accelerator to treat waste radioactive material. The linac is to be operated at the room temperature and is energized by two 1.2MW CW L-band klystrons to produce an electron beam with the energy of 10MeV and current of 100mA. The average beam power is 200KW-1MW for the duty factor 20%-100%. In designing such high power electron linear accelerator, an accelerating section having a traveling wave resonant ring is adopted. By adopting such type of acceleration section, it became possible to choose very short length of the accelerator sections to elevate the threshold current of beam break-up (BBU) keeping the high accelerator efficiency. In designing the linac with the traveling wave resonant ring, some special considerations and calculations are introduced. The variational method is used to calculate the sizes and parameters of the disk-loaded accelerator structure. There is the discrepancy of the order of a few hundredth of one percent between the calculated frequency and the experimental one. A kind of internal cooling water structure is adopted to disperse the generated heat by RF efficiently. Currently, its components development is in progress at OEC.

Development of U and Pu co-processing process; Demonstration of U, Pu and Np co-recovery with centrifugal contactors

Kudo, Atsunari; Kurabayashi, Kazuaki; Yanagibashi, Futoshi; Sato, Takehiko; Fujimoto, Ikuo; Obu, Tomoyuki

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