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World Bank, IAEA partner to fund nuclear energy
The World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement last week to cooperate on the construction and financing of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries, marking the first partnership since the bank ended its ban on funding for nuclear energy projects.
John T. Holmes, Howard Stethers, John J. Barghusen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 301-309
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20526
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As a step in the development of a new reprocessing method for spent nuclear fuels, a fluoride volatility pilot plant has successfully demonstrated the recovery of uranium as uranium hexafluoride from unirradiated uranium-zirconium and uranium-aluminum alloy fuels. The process involves the separation of the alloying metal as a volatile chloride by reaction with hydrogen chloride in a fluid-bed reactor, followed by reaction of residual solid uranium chlorides with hydrogen fluoride and then with fluorine gas to effect recovery of uranium hexafluoride. In tests involving the processing of up to 30 kg of simulated fuel, uranium recoveries of > 99% were achieved. The volatile zirconium and aluminum chlorides are converted to solid oxides for waste disposal by reaction with steam in a fluid-bed reactor.