HTGR Fuel Reprocessing: Recovery of Uranium From Silicon Carbide-Coated Fissile Particles.

HTGR Fuel Reprocessing: Effects of Including a Silicon Carbide Coating on Fertile Fuel Particles.

“…The inclusion of a silicon carbide coating on the fertile particles also requires additional process steps, similar to some of those outlined in Ref. 2. This report discusses the additional process steps required in a plant processing only fertile particles (Case IIIB) and in a plant processing both fissile and fertile particles (Case IIIBl) .…”

“…As discussed in Ref. 2, the use of a single solvent extraction system would require (1) a somewhat larger solvent extraction system, (2) additional Table 11 REPROCESSING CHARGES Case IIIB ($/year) Annual fixed charge (Table 10) 5,609,000…”