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Effects of operating conditions on molten-salt electrorefining for zirconium recovery from irradiated Zircaloy-4 cladding of pressurized water reactor

Author(s)
Park, JaeyeongChoi, SungyeolSohn, SungjuneKim, Kwang-RagHwang, Il Soon
Issued Date
2014-08
DOI
10.1016/j.nucengdes.2014.04.035
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/16746
Fulltext
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029549314002611
Citation
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, v.275, pp.44 - 52
Abstract
To reduce the final waste volume from used nuclear fuel assembly, it is significant to decontaminate irradiated cladding. Electrorefining in high temperature molten salt could be one of volume decontamination processes for the cladding. This study examines the effect of operating conditions on decontamination factor in electrorefining of irradiated Zircaloy-4 cladding of pressurized water reactor. One-dimensional time-dependent electrochemical reaction code, REFIN, was utilized for simulating irradiated cladding electrorefining. Composition of irradiated Zircaloy was estimated based on ORIGEN-2 and other literatures. Co and U were considered in electrorefining simulation with major elements of Zircaloy-4 to represent activation products and actinides penetrating into the cladding respectively. Total 240 cases of electrorefining are simulated including 8 diffusion boundary layer thicknesses, 10 concentrations of contaminated molten salt and 3 termination conditions. Decontamination factors for each case were evaluated and it is revealed that the radioactivity of Co-60 in recovered zirconium on cathode could decrease below the clearance level when initial concentration of chlorides except ZrCl4 is lower than 1 x 10(-11) weight fraction if electrorefining is finished before anode potential reaches -1.8 V (vs. Cl-2/Cl-). (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
ISSN
0029-5493

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