• 제목/요약/키워드: Pyroprocessing

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파이로 공정장치의 원격 취급성에 관한 실험적 연구 (Experimental Study of Remote Handling Performance for Pyroprocessing Facilities)

  • 유승남;김성현
    • 한국정밀공학회지
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    • 제29권5호
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    • pp.524-530
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    • 2012
  • In this study, it is performed that the assessment of feasibility of developed material processing facilities using tele-operation manipulator system for the pyroprocessing. To evaluate the performance of developed facilities using tele-operation system, several performance indices are considered as remote visibility, remote reachability and remote manipulability. These are applied to RHEM (Remote Handling Evaluation Mock-up) and digital mock-up system respectively. Through this approaches, several requirements for the system improvement are deduced and preliminary inspection for real system application is fully performed. Additionally, assembly and disassembly tasks for the repair of remote handling system are also examined remotely in RHEM and evaluated those performances.

A MODEL STUDY ON MULTISTEP RECOVERY OF ACTINIDES BASED ON THE DIFFERENCE IN DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS WITHIN LIQUID METAL

  • CHUN, YOUNG-MIN;SHIN, HEON-CHEOL
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제47권5호
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    • pp.588-595
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    • 2015
  • This study presents an effective method for additional recovery of residual actinides in liquid electrodes after the electrowinning process of pyroprocessing. The major distinctive feature of this method is a reactor with multiple reaction cells separated by partition walls in order to improve the recovery yield, thereby using the interelement difference in diffusion coefficients within the liquid electrode and controlling the selectivity and purity of element recovery. Through an example of numerical simulation of the diffusion scenarios of individual elements, we verified that the proposed method could effectively separate the actinides (U and Pu) and rare-earth elements contained in liquid cadmium. We performed a five-step consecutive recovery process using a simplified conceptual reaction cell and recovered 58% of the initial amount of actinides (U + Pu) in high purity (${\geq}99%$).

An Analysis of Constraints on Pyroprocessing Technology Development in ROK Under the US Nonproliferation Policy

  • Jae Soo Ryu
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.383-395
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    • 2023
  • Since 1997, the Republic of Korea (ROK) has been developing pyro-processing (Pyro) technology to reduce the disposal burden of high-level radioactive waste by recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Compared to plutonium and uranium extraction process, Korean Pyro technology has relatively excellent proliferation resistance that cannot separate pure plutonium owing to its intrinsic characteristics. Regarding Pyro technology development of ROK, the Bush administration considered that Pyro is not reprocessing under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, whereas the Obama administration considered that Pyro is subject to reprocessing. However, the Bush and Obama administrations did not allow ROK to conduct full Pyro activities using SNF, even though ROK had faithfully complied with international nonproliferation obligations. This is because the US nuclear nonproliferation policy to prevent the spread of sensitive technologies, such as enrichment and reprocessing, has a strong effect on ROK, unlike Japan, on a bilateral level beyond the NPT regime for non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.