On the Feasibility of Plasma Separation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Components in a Nonuniform Magnetic Field

Smirnov, V. P.; Samokhin, A. A.; Gavrikov, A. V.; Kuzmichev, S. D.; Usmanov, R. A.; Vorona, N. A.

doi:10.1134/s1063780x1905012x

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“…The potential applications include recycling of alloys (e.g. rare earth metals) into pure elements 1 , or efficient treatment of nuclear waste [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] . Regarding the latter, the promise of plasma separation is that of efficiently isolating the small quantity of very dangerous actinide waste from the rest of the low activity waste (structural waste as well as the other products of fission, e.g.…”

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Impact of azimuthal forcing on the Brillouin limit in a collisional two-species Ohkawa filter

Nicolas

2022

Physics of Plasmas

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This paper investigates the physics of plasma separation in a two species rotating collisional Ohkawa filter, when the source of rotation is an orbital angular momentum carrying wave. The electric field is treated self-consistently with ion and electron radial motion. The injection of angular momentum causes radial currents leading to charge penetration and electric field build up. The electric field varies until an equilibrium with the friction forces is reached. Both collisions with neutrals and Coulomb collisions are considered. In the case where the electric field is driven by the resonant wave, there is no collisional breakdown of the Brillouin limit [Rax et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 092101 (2015)]; on the contrary, the maximum achievable electric field decreases when the collision frequency is increased. When two species are present, one that undergoes the wave forcing while the second does not interact with the wave, we find the following: the first species is confined, while the second species can be expelled or confined depending on the charge to mass ratio and the collisionalities. Assuming equal charge numbers, if the second species is the heavy one, it is always expelled, which is a standard result. When the second species is the light one, it can also be expelled in the common case where neutral collisions dominate over Coulomb collisions, which constitutes a new result.

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