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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.
Dirk Gombert II
Nuclear Technology | Volume 108 | Number 1 | October 1994 | Pages 90-99
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A35045
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A soil sample from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory was physically and chemically characterized, then sequentially extracted to determine if soil washing could be effectively used to remove cesium, cobalt, and chromium. The contaminant distribution did not correlate with surface area or any particular crystalline phase. However, the transition metals did appear to be coincident with the matrix transition metals, iron and manganese. This finding was verified by sequential-extraction data, which showed that most of the cobalt and chromium was extracted by destroying the soil hydrated metal-oxide phases. Unfortunately, <20% of the cesium was extractable even after dissolving >20% of the soil mass. The low recovery of cesium, the primary risk-driver, eliminated extractive soil washing from further consideration for this site.