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Molten salt research is focus of ANS local section presentation
The American Nuclear Society’s Chicago–Great Lakes Local Section hosted a presentation on February 27 on developments at the molten salt research reactor at Abilene Christian University’s Nuclear Energy Experimental Testing (NEXT) Lab.
A recording of the presentation is available on the ANS website.
M. W. Nathans, E. Greenberg, H. M. Feder
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 1 | January 1961 | Pages 32-34
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25861
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The partition of plutonium between liquid magnesium and liquid uranium or uranium-chromium alloy was investigated. The extraction was found to be reversible and essentially independent of concentration up to one weight per cent plutonium. The molar partition coefficients for both systems can be expressed as a function of temperature by the equation log K = 1887/T − 2.010.
