Recycling of thorium dioxide scrap from nuclear fuel pellets fabrication

Anton Schneider; Patrick Goethals; Rémi Delville; Thomas Cardinaels

Recycling of thorium dioxide scrap from nuclear fuel pellets fabrication

Anton Schneider, Patrick Goethals, Rémi Delville, Thomas Cardinaels

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Abstract

Thorium dioxide as an alternative nuclear fuel to uranium dioxide is gaining more and more interest. An important aspect in the fuel production is the recycling of scrap material produced throughout the total production process. Due to the chemical inertness of thorium dioxide, the recycling of the scrap materials is much more complicated that for uranium fuels where thermal redox reactions can be used. The prupose of this work was to find a suitable method to dissolve the thorium dioxide.

Original language	English
Qualification	Other
Awarding Institution	Université de Lille - Polytech Lille, Ecole d'ingénieurs
Supervisors/Advisors	Van Hecke, Karen, Supervisor Cagno, Simone, Supervisor Cardinaels, Thomas, Supervisor Verwerft, Marc, Supervisor Legris, Alexandre, Supervisor, External person
Date of Award	15 Aug 2015
Place of Publication	Lille, France
Publisher	Polytech Lille
State	Published - Aug 2015

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