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Local Gas Purification System in Spent Nitride Fuel Oxidation

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A local gas-purification system of the voloxidation operation is examined within the framework of the technology of regeneration of spent mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel from fast reactors. The system includes a metal-fabric filter, HEPA filter, ruthenium capture unit, an adsorber for capturing iodine, a unit for additional oxidation and trapping of hydrogen (tritium), and a unit for capturing 14CO2. A description is given of each unit, the overall scheme, and the possibilities of the gas-purification system.

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    O. A. Ustinov, K. N. Dvoeglazov, A. I. Tuchkova & A. Yu. Shadrin

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 203–205, October, 2017.

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Ustinov, O.A., Dvoeglazov, K.N., Tuchkova, A.I. et al. Local Gas Purification System in Spent Nitride Fuel Oxidation. At Energy 123, 244–247 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-018-0333-5

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