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Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
G. L. DePoorter, C. K. Rofer-DePoorter, S. W. Hayter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 43 | Number 2 | April 1979 | Pages 132-135
Technical Paper | The Back End of the Light Water Reactor Fuel Cycle / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A16304
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U(IV) can be photochemically produced in tri-n-butyl phosphate solutions from uranyl nitrate and used to reduce Pu(IV). Nitrite production can be controlled by filtering out light having wavelengths of <350 nm and by keeping the temperature of the reaction mixture below 10°C. Another product of the photolysis, di-n-butyl phosphate, can interfere with the reduction, but no effect was apparent in our experiments. Conventional solvent cleanup procedures should remove photolysis side products. The application of this process to the reprocessing of nuclear fuel would require commercially available light sources that can be located outside the hot zone of the plant and a reactor vessel with windows within the hot zone.