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- Patent Title: Spent fuel dry-process reprocessing method for directly obtaining zirconium alloy nuclear fuel
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Application No.: US15746833Application Date: 2015-07-31
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Publication No.: US10731265B2Publication Date: 2020-08-04
- Inventor: Guoan Ye , Yinggen Ouyang , Changshui Wang , Lisheng Liu , Jianhua Guo , Ruixue Li , Li Chang , Shangwen Chang , He Yang , Wei Gao , Huibo Li , Songtao Xiao
- Applicant: CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY
- Applicant Address: CN Beijing
- Assignee: China Institute of Atomic Energy
- Current Assignee: China Institute of Atomic Energy
- Current Assignee Address: CN Beijing
- Agent Xinsheng Wang
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@69fde3cb
- International Application: PCT/CN2015/085720 WO 20150731
- International Announcement: WO2017/015975 WO 20170202
- Main IPC: C25C3/36
- IPC: C25C3/36 ; G21C19/48

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a spent fuel dry reprocessing method for directly obtaining a zirconium alloy nuclear fuel, comprising: determining components and a ratio of a molten salt composition used for melting a spent fuel according to a requirement of reactor design on a zirconium alloy fuel and contents of actinium series metals in the spent fuel; melting the spent fuel in the above molten salt composition; and selecting an electrode pair for electrodeposition so that zirconium in the molten salt composition and uranium ions in the spent fuel or uranium and other actinium series metal ions are subjected to co-deposition, thereby obtaining the zirconium alloy nuclear fuel meeting a design requirement. The spent fuel dry reprocessing method provided by the invention is suitable for oxide spent fuel and metal spent fuel, and is simple and controllable in process, low in energy consumption, low in cost and easy to industrialize.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180216245A1 SPENT FUEL DRY-PROCESS REPROCESSING METHOD FOR DIRECTLY OBTAINING ZIRCONIUM ALLOY NUCLEAR FUEL Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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