摘要:
A method of making Gd or Er isotopes from gaseous compounds containing —BH4 and —CH3BH3 ions involves making the Gd or Er compounds (24) in a solid state reactor (10), passing the gaseous compounds (24) to a separation process (16) to provide products enriched in the desired isotopes of Gd or Er heads and Gd or Er tails depleted in these desired isotopes and then reacting the Gd or Er heads and Gd or Er tails with chlorine in a reactor (18) to provide products of 157GdCl3, 155GdCl3 or 167ErCl3 enriched in Gd and Er isotopes.
摘要:
The present invention relates to nuclear fuel compositions including triuranium disilicide. The triuranium disilicide includes a uranium component which includes uranium-235. The uranium-235 is present in an amount such that it constitutes from about 0.7% to about 5% by weight based on the total weight of the uranium component of the triuranium disilicide. The nuclear fuel compositions of the present invention are particularly useful in light water reactors.
摘要:
The present invention relates to nuclear fuel compositions including triuranium disilicide. The triuranium disilicide includes a uranium component which includes uranium-235. The uranium-235 is present in an amount such that it constitutes from about 0.7% to about 5% by weight based on the total weight of the uranium component of the triuranium disilicide. The nuclear fuel compositions of the present invention are particularly useful in light water reactors.
摘要:
The present invention relates to nuclear fuel compositions including triuranium disilicide. The triuranium disilicide includes a uranium component which includes uranium-235. The uranium-235 is present in an amount such that it constitutes from about 0.7% to about 20% by weight based on the total weight of the uranium component of the triuranium disilicide. The nuclear fuel compositions of the present invention are particularly useful in light water reactors.
摘要:
A fuel channel (5) for a fuel element (1) to a fission reactor, where the fuel element comprises an inlet (9), an outlet (11) and a plurality of elongated fuel rods (3), which fuel rods each comprises a nuclear fuel and are adapted to transfer energy to a streaming medium during operation of the fission reactor. The fuel channel comprises a casing (7) adapted to surround the fuel rods between the inlet and the outlet. The casing is adapted during operation of the fission reactor to guide the streaming medium along the fuel rods from the inlet to the outlet and be subjected to irradiation from the fuel rods. The casing is manufactured from a ceramic material.
摘要:
A method of recovering contaminating or valuable components from a solid feed material (10), includes feeding the material (10) into an optional grinder as a pretreatment (12), then into a heated melter (14) along with a material (16) that provides fluorine, to provide a molten or semi-molten material, where the molten material is then reacted with water or an acid solution (22) in vessel (20), to form a dissolved molten or semi-molten salt in solution, which can be passed to extractor (26) or the like and provide a concentrated stream of the valuable or contaminating components (30).
摘要:
The removal of organics and volatile metals from soils using thermal desorption comprises moving contaminated materials, positioned on a belt conveyor, through a chamber (32) under oxygen conditions, temperature conditions, and residence time effective to substantially avoid incineration of the contaminants, while volatilizing the contaminants and producing a processed material that is substantially decontaminated, where the volatilized contaminants are carried from the chamber (32) by a transport gas which is passed through a packed tower (70) where quench/scrubbing liquid flows countercurrent to gas flow, for producing a substantially cleaned gas and a contaminated liquid concentrate. The gas may be passed through a further gas cleaning system (86) prior to discharge into the atmosphere, while the liquid concentrate is passed through a water treatment system (90) for producing substantially cleaned water which may be passed through an air cooler (92) and recycled back to cool the processed material. Steam from moist contaminated material can be used as a cocurrent transfer gas.
摘要:
A nuclear reactor having a liquid metal or molten salt coolant in a riser space 130′, has a cylindrical containment vessel 134 with a reactor vessel 120′, at least two lobes 121, preferably three to nine lobes 121, each lobe 121 interconnected with the other lobe(s) and each containing a fast reactor core, 116′, 116″, 116″ and 116″″.
摘要:
A multi-pressure hybrid sulfur process (2) contains at least one electrolyzer unit (16) which provides liquid H2SO4 to a preheater/vaporizer reactor (20) operating at a pressure of from 1 MPa to 9 MPa to form gaseous H2SO4 which is passed to a decomposition reactor (14) operating at a pressure of from 7 MPa to 9 MPa, where decomposed H2SO4 is passed to at least one scrubber unit (14) and at least one electrolyzer unit (16) both preferably operating at a pressure of 0.1 MPa to 7 MPa, where an associated Rankine Cycle power conversion unit (50) supplies electricity.
摘要翻译:多压混合硫工艺(2)包含至少一个电解槽单元(16),该电解器单元(16)向在1MPa至9MPa的压力下操作的预热器/蒸发器反应器(20)提供液体H 2 SO 4,以形成通过的气态H 2 SO 4 到分解反应器(14),其在7MPa至9MPa的压力下操作,其中分解的H 2 SO 4通过至少一个洗涤器单元(14)和至少一个电解器单元(16),优选在0.1的压力下操作 MPa至7MPa,其中相关的朗肯循环功率转换单元(50)供电。
摘要:
The present invention provides a nuclear fuel assembly, where a boron-containing compound is used as a burnable poison and is distributed in a majority of the rods in the assembly. The assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods, each fuel rod containing a plurality of nuclear fuel pellets, wherein at least one fuel pellet in more than 50% of the fuel rods in the fuel assembly comprises a sintered admixture of a metal oxide, metal carbide or metal nitride and a boron-containing compound.