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Rosatom announces novel used fuel processing technology
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced it has developed an innovative crystallisation refining technology for the purification and separation of nuclear materials from used nuclear fuel.
A rendering of the ODEK pilot energy complex (Image: Rosatom) Rosatom said that scientists from its Fuel Division and the Proryv, or Breakthrough, project area have developed the new technology, which will be implemented at the facility for reprocessing irradiated uranium-plutonium (SNUP) fuel as part of the pilot energy complex (ODEK) being built at the Siberian Chemical Combine's site in Seversk, Tomsk Region. "Crystallisation refining technology will ensure a high level of safety during used nuclear fuel reprocessing," Rosatom said. It noted that, unlike extraction technologies for purification of nuclear materials, crystallisation is accompanied by the production of a smaller volume of secondary waste, including due to the use of only nitric acid solutions as reagents.
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