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강영호;황성찬;김응호;유재형
- Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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- 2003.11a
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- pp.368-372
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- 2003
The present study focused on obtaining the optimum conditions for depositing pure uranium onto a solid cathode. As for the results of the experiments, it was conformed that when the concentration of $UCl_3$ in the molten salt(LiCl-KCl) is more than 2wt%, pure uranium could be deposited onto a solid cathode, In addition. the effect of both the current density and the U contents in the molten salt or th ratio of uranium to salt was examined and the uranium morphology was also investigated.
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Park, Sung-Bin;Park, Byung-Heung;Seo, Chung-Seok;Jung, Ki-Jung;Park, Seong-Won
- Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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- 2005.11b
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- pp.39-50
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- 2005
Electrolytic reduction of uranium oxide to uranium metal was studied in a $LiCl-Li_{2}O$ molten salt system. The reduction mechanism of the uranium oxide to a uranium metal has been studied by means of a cyclic voltammetry. Effects of the layer thickness of the uranium oxide and the thickness of the MgO on the overpotential of the cathode and the anode were investigated by means of a chronopotentiometry. From the cyclic voltamograms, the decomposition potentials of the metal oxides are the determining factors for the mechanism of the reduction of the uranium oxide in a $LiCl-3\;wt{\%} Li_{2}O$ molten salt and the two mechanisms of the electrolytic reduction were considered with regards to the applied cathode potential. In the chronopotentiograms, the exchange current and the transfer coefficient based on the Tafel behavior were obtained with regard to the layer thickness of the uranium oxide which is loaded into the porous MgO membrane and the thickness of the porous MgO membrane. The maximum allowable currents for the changes of the layer thickness of the uranium oxide and the thickness of the MgO membrane were also obtained from the limiting potential which is the decomposition potential of LiCl.
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Kim, Beom-Kyu;Han, Hwa-Jeong;Park, Ji-Hye;Kim, Won-Ki;Park, Byung Gi
- Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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- 2017.05a
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- pp.227-228
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- 2017
In this paper, electrolytic behavior of Cerium and Ce-Bi ion system was studied. The electrochemical behavior of Ce was studied in $LiCl-KCl-CeCl_3$ molten salts using electrochemical techniques Cyclic Voltammetry on tungsten electrodes at 773K. During the process of CV electrolysis, intermetallic compound were observed of Ce, Cex-Biy. Further study, in order to determine clarity of diffusion coefficient in this experiment, we will compare result of electrochemistry method and we also need to quantitative research.
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오승철;박병흥;강대승;서중석;박성원
- Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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- 2003.11a
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- pp.363-367
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- 2003
Much attention has been given to an electrochemical reduction process for converting uranium oxide to uranium metal in molten salt. The process has the versatility of being adopted for reducing other actinide and rare-earth metals from their oxides. Using the metal oxide to be reduced as a integrated cathode designed originally and inert conductors as anodes, oxygen anions are removed from the cathode and oxidized at the surface of the anodes in a molten salt cell. However, the electrochemical properties of alkali and alkali-earth metal oxides in molten salt have not been investigated thoroughly, which made the process incomplete when it is considered as a unit process in a back-end fuel cycle. It is well known that cesium and strontium Isotopes in spent fuel are main contributors for head load. The properties of cesium, strontium, and barium oxides such as the dissolution rates and reduction potentials in molten LiC1 dissolving $Li_2O$ are examined.
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Jeong, Gwan Yoon;Park, Jaeyeong
- Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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- 2018.11a
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- pp.299-300
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- 2018
Electrochemical behaviors of Nb ion in the $LiCl-KCl-NbCl_5$ molten salt were examined. Cyclic voltammograms with different scan rates and scan range at $450^{\circ}C$ showed possible electrochemical redox reactions which were identified by comparison to the literature data. Peak potentials for each redox reaction were consistent with the literature, but some redox reactions were not clearly defined due to the formation of subchloride compound in chloride salt. The electrochemical behaviors of Nb ion related to the subchloride formation as well as Nb metal deposition will be investigated for the future work.
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