Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles

Cyclic Voltammetry on Zirconium Redox Reactions in LiCl-KCl-ZrCl4at 500°C for Electrorefining Contaminated Zircaloy-4 Cladding

“…[2][3][4][5][6] Molten salt electrorefining in nuclear applications was originally developed for recovering uranium from spent fuels. [7][8][9][10][11] During electrorefining, the contaminated zirconium alloys are melted in a LiCl-KCl electrolyte at high temperature. An electrode potential is used to preferentially separate zirconium from the contaminated alloys by depositing it on the cathode within the electrochemical cell.…”

Innovative Separations Research and Development Needs for Advanced Fuel Cycles

“…Electrorefining of metallic U or U-Zr or U-Pu-Zr alloys has been researched and applied for many years and is the main unit operation for processing irradiated Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) fuel at the Fuel Conditioning Facility at INL (Li et al , 2006. That fuel-treatment campaign has been ongoing since 2000 and uses two engineering-scale electrorefiners.…”

Pyrochemical fuel cycle technologies for processing of spent nuclear fuels

“…Especially for the core steps from the disassembly of spent fuel to the cathode processing, a lot of operational experiences with prototype or practicalscale equipment have been already accumulated in the fuel conditioning facility (FCF) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) by reprocessing of actual spent metallic fuels from Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) (Goff et al, 2007;Goff and Simpson, 2009;Li et al, 2007). Especially for the core steps from the disassembly of spent fuel to the cathode processing, a lot of operational experiences with prototype or practicalscale equipment have been already accumulated in the fuel conditioning facility (FCF) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) by reprocessing of actual spent metallic fuels from Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) (Goff et al, 2007;Goff and Simpson, 2009;Li et al, 2007).…”