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14 декабря, 2021
A voloxidizer and electroreduction cell are pieces of equipment specific to spent oxide fuels treatment. Voloxidation is a well-known technique; however, most experiments have been carried out at the laboratory scale. KAERI is developing engineering-scale voloxidizers for decladding and pulverization of oxide fuel. A voloxidizer of 20 kg HM/batch was designed to oxidize fuels on a vibrating mesh where powdered products are separated from unreacted chunks of fuel. The effectiveness of the vibration on the oxidation rate was reported for the tests with 20 kg unirradiated UO2 (Kim, 2005). Figure 10.24 shows a new model of the voloxidizer, equipped with a rotating mesh basket in the furnace. The chopped spent fuels are crushed by impact from a ceramic ball, and small pieces of pellet are pulverized by oxidation. The fuel powder is collected in the collector located under the mesh basket. In this voloxidizer, simulated fuels (90% W and 10% SiO2) equivalent to 20 kg spent fuel were tested. Oxidation was completed in 13 hrs, and the obtained recovery ratios for hull and powders were 100% and 97.6%, respectively (Kim, 2009).
10.24 High throughput voloxidizer of KAERI. |