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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
R. E. Blanco
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 409-419
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28778
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Heterogeneous reactor reprocessing problems are discussed primarily from the viewpoint of a central solvent extraction reprocessing station. The currently proposed fuels have been classified into types to minimize the number of processing schemes required. Primary emphasis is placed on a description of alternate methods for converting fuels to a nitric acid soluble form and the effects of radiation and inert alloy metals on the solvent extraction method. Head-end methods include acid dissolution, oxidation, hydrochlorination, chlorination, carburization, molten metal dissolution, and electrolytic dissolution. A new reprocessing method, the Hermex process, which uses mercury as the dissolving agent, is also presented. Schematic flowsheets for proposed methods are included.