화학공학소재연구정보센터
학회 한국화학공학회
학술대회 2013년 가을 (10/23 ~ 10/25, 대구 EXCO)
권호 19권 2호, p.1686
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제목 Development of LCC electrowinning process for group actinide recovery at KAERI
초록 Used nuclear fuel is considered as waste to be disposed of in permanent repositories, but the long period of safety management makes it difficult to be accepted as a sustainable solution for long-term use of nuclear power. Pyrochemical processes, which utilize electrochemical reactions in high-temperature molten salts, have been a promising method for the recovery and recycling of a group actinide. In Korea, an integrated pyroprocessing system has been developed to process the used oxide fuel discharged from a pressurized water reactor (PWR) and to provide metallic fuel containing transuranic elements (TRUs) to a future sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). Since actinides are recovered using liquid cadmium cathode in electrowinning process, pyroprocessing enhances the proliferation resistance significantly. In the electrowinning process, U & TRUs in molten LiCl-KCl are co-deposited onto LCC, while Cl2(g) is evolved on an inert carbon anode surface. Since the dendritic U deposits act as a solid cathode, resulting in hindrance of the co-deposition of U/TRU, several designs of the LCC assembly were developed.
저자 김가영, 김시형, 김택진, 안도희, 심준보, 백승우
소속 한국원자력(연)
키워드 Electrowinning; Pyroprocess; Liquid cadmium cathode; Group actinide
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