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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 162 | Number 2 | May 2008 | Pages 229-243
Technical Paper | First International Pyroprocessing Research Conference | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3951
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In pyrometallugical reprocessing, the spent electrorefiner salt containing fission product (FP) elements may be purified by zeolite and reused. Batch-type absorption tests were conducted using one or two FP chlorides in a LiCl-KCl eutectic electrolyte in order to obtain absorption isotherms to fit to a Langmuir equation model. For the trivalent FP elements in the one-component or two-component systems, the FP-element uptake in the zeolite can be related to its concentration in the salt using a single Langmuir-type equation. In contrast, for monovalent and divalent FP elements, it was necessary to use three different Langmuir-type equations. Using these derived absorption equations and a stage concentration diagram, it was found that only a three-stage process is required to attain a decontamination factor of 50 for trivalent FP elements via a countercurrent multistage process.