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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.2011.43.4.317

PYROPROCESSING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AT KAERI  

Lee, Han-Soo (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Park, Geun-Il (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kang, Kweon-Ho (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Hur, Jin-Mok (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kim, Jeong-Guk (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Ahn, Do-Hee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Cho, Yung-Zun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kim, Eung-Ho (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.43, no.4, 2011 , pp. 317-328 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pyroprocessing technology was developed in the beginning for metal fuel treatment in the US in the 1960s. The conventional aqueous process, such as PUREX, is not appropriate for treating metal fuel. Pyroprocessing technology has advantages over the aqueous process: less proliferation risk, treatment of spent fuel with relatively high heat and radioactivity, compact equipment, etc. The addition of an oxide reduction process to the pyroprocessing metal fuel treatment enables handling of oxide spent fuel, which draws a potential option for the management of spent fuel from the PWR. In this context, KAERI has been developing pyroprocessing technology to handle the oxide spent fuel since the 1990s. This paper describes the current status of pyroprocessing technology development at KAERI from the head-end process to the waste treatment. A unit process with various scales has been tested to produce the design data associated with the scale up. A performance test of unit processes integration will be conducted at the PRIDE facility, which will be constructed by early 2012. The PRIDE facility incorporates the unit processes all together in a cell with an Ar environment. The purpose of PRIDE is to test the processes for unit process performance, operability by remote equipment, the integrity of the unit processes, process monitoring, Ar environment system operation, and safeguards related activities. The test of PRIDE will be promising for further pyroprocessing technology development.
Keywords
Spent Nuclear Fuel; Pyroprocessing; Head-end; Oxide Reduction; Electrorefining; Electrowinning; Waste Treatment;
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