Nuclear power provides a sustainable, long-term energy source that is an important
technology in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. However, issues related to …

The results of an international review of separation processes for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)
recycling in future closed fuel cycles are reported. This study was made by the Expert Group …

The electrochemical reduction process has been used to reduce spent oxide fuel to a
metallic form using pyroprocessing technology for a closed fuel cycle in combination with a …

Abstract Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) operated from 1964 to 1994 as one of the
first sodium-cooled fast reactors to use sodium-bonded metallic driver fuels and blankets …

Little over a decade ago, Professor Derek Fray's group at the University of Cambridge, UK,
discovered that a solid metal oxide can be directly reduced to metal by cathodically …

A series of bench-scale experiments was performed in a hot cell at Idaho National
Laboratory to demonstrate the separation and recovery of uranium metal from spent light …

The main purpose of this paper is to study the extraction and separation of key fragment
elements based on the electrolytic refining process of spent fuel dry reprocessing. Firstly, the …

The electrochemical behavior of a platinum anode has been investigated during the
electrolysis of uranium oxide in a LiCl molten salt. Pt is oxidized to Pt2+ at 2.6 V (vs. Li–Pb …

This paper summarizes research in used fuel pyroprocessing that has been published by
Idaho National Laboratory over the last decade. It includes work done both on treatment of …

Reactive metal oxides are conventionally reduced to metal by metallothermic reduction. This
paper presents on the efficient reduction method based on the electrochemical reaction in a …