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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
O. O. Yarbro, J. L. English, T. S. Mackey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 492-497
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17404
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Target rods irradiated in the High Flux Isotope Reactor will be chemically processed for the recovery and decontamination of the various actinide elements produced in the reactor. The processing equipment will be located in four of the nine cubicles and seven tank pits of the Transuranium Processing Plant cell bank. Activity and contamination levels in the process equipment necessitate the use of remote or semiremote maintenance techniques. Maintenance and plant modifications are simplified by a remotely operated piping disconnect developed for this purpose. The choice of materials of construction for the process equipment and piping is limited by the hydrochloric acid environment and intense radioactivity of the process solutions. Hastelloy C appears to be acceptable for low temperature waste service, while only tantalum, Zircaloy-2, or glass is suitable for process equipment.