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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
Kiyomi Funabashi, Koichi Chino, Tsutomu Baba, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Tatsuo Izumida, Toshio Sawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 108 | Number 3 | December 1994 | Pages 370-378
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A35019
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A demister using a hydrophobic porous membrane made from polytetrafluoroethylene was developed to improve the decontamination factor (DF) of a waste evaporator. The demister removes the radioactive mist in steam generated from the evaporator. A large-scale membrane module (membrane surface area: 3 m1) for the demister was newly designed, and its steam permeation rate and DF were experimentally examined using steam containing simulated mist (5 wt% Na2SO4 solution). The steam permeation rate decreases due to adhesion of removed mist on the membrane surface, but it is maintained at ∼0.35 of the initial value through falling of the mist from the membrane surface due to the mist particles’ own weight. The DF of the demister, using a membrane having less than a 0.7-μm pore diameter, is >5 × 103. The total DF of the evaporator with the new demister is estimated to be >5 × 107.