CONVERSION OF SPENT URANIUM OXIDE FUEL INTO MOLTEN SALT REACTOR FUEL

    公开(公告)号:US20200027601A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-23

    申请号:US16085568

    申请日:2017-03-14

    申请人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    发明人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    摘要: There is described a method of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. The spent nuclear fuel is added to an electro-reduction cell containing a halide salt electrolyte at a temperature above the melting point of the metallic form of uranium and higher actinides present in the spent nuclear fuel. The cell is operated so as to electrochemically reduce the spent nuclear fuel to form an alloy of uranium and higher actinides present in the spent nuclear fuel, wherein electrochemical reduction is continued until a concentration of unreduced components of the spent nuclear fuel is sufficiently low for the alloy to agglomerate.

    CONTROL OF CORROSION BY MOLTEN SALTS
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180286525A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15764769

    申请日:2016-12-08

    申请人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    发明人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    摘要: A molten halide salt mixture for use in a nuclear fission reactor. The molten halide salt mixture comprises a reactive metal halide salt. The reactive metal halide salt is a halide salt of a reactive metal. The reactive metal has a Pauling electronegativity of at least 1.2, and at least one other halide salt of higher valence than the reactive metal halide salt. The reactive metal salt is at a concentration sufficient to prevent corrosion of metals in contact with the molten halide salt mixture and insufficient to cause deposition of the reactive metal at an operating temperature of the nuclear fission reactor.

    Practical molten salt fission reactor

    公开(公告)号:US10043594B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US14768658

    申请日:2014-02-19

    申请人: Ian Richard Scott

    发明人: Ian Richard Scott

    摘要: A nuclear fission reactor comprising a core, a pool of coolant liquid, and a heat exchanger. The core comprises an array of hollow tubes which contain molten salts of fissile isotopes. The tube array is at least partly immersed in the pool of coolant liquid. The tube array comprises a critical region, where the density of the fissile isotopes during operation of the reactor is sufficient to cause a self-sustaining fission reaction. Heat transfer from the molten salts of fissile isotopes to the tubes is achieved by any one or more of natural convection of the molten salts, mechanical stirring of the molten salts, and oscillating fuel salt flow within the tubes. The molten salts of fissile isotopes are contained entirely within the tubes during operation of the reactor.

    A PRACTICAL MOLTEN SALT FISSION REACTOR
    6.
    发明申请
    A PRACTICAL MOLTEN SALT FISSION REACTOR 审中-公开
    实践中的盐雾反应器

    公开(公告)号:US20160005497A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-07

    申请号:US14768658

    申请日:2014-02-19

    申请人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    发明人: Ian Richard SCOTT

    IPC分类号: G21C1/22 G21C1/03 G21C3/54

    摘要: A nuclear fission reactor comprising a core, a pool of coolant liquid, and a heat exchanger. The core comprises an array of hollow tubes which contain molten salts of fissile isotopes. The tube array is at least partly immersed in the pool of coolant liquid. The tube array comprises a critical region, where the density of the fissile isotopes during operation of the reactor is sufficient to cause a self-sustaining fission reaction. Heat transfer from the molten salts of fissile isotopes to the tubes is achieved by any one or more of natural convection of the molten salts, mechanical stirring of the molten salts, and oscillating fuel salt flow within the tubes. The molten salts of fissile isotopes are contained entirely within the tubes during operation of the reactor.

    摘要翻译: 核裂变反应堆,包括核心,冷却液池和热交换器。 核心包括含有裂变同位素熔盐的空心管阵列。 管阵列至少部分地浸在冷却剂液体池中。 管阵列包括临界区域,其中在反应器操作期间裂变同位素的密度足以引起自维持裂变反应。 通过熔融盐的自然对流,熔融盐的机械搅拌和管内振荡的燃料盐流中的任何一种或多种来实现从裂变同位素的熔融盐到管的热传递。 在反应器运行期间,裂变同位素的熔盐完全包含在管内。