The problem of handling depleted uranium hexafluoride is discussed. An effective and ecologically safe variant of complex recycling of depleted uranium hexafluoride with uranium oxides, organic compounds, and high-purity silicon tetrafluoride obtained is substantiated. It is shown on the basis of experimental data that the temperature of solid-phase interaction of depleted uranium tetrafluoride with silicon dioxide of different nature by mechanical activation of the latter can be lowered.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya,Vol. 111, No. 4, pp. 219–223, October, 2011.
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Magomedbekov, E.P., Chizhevskaya, S.V., Klimenko, O.M. et al. Depleted uranium hexafluoride – technogenic raw material for obtaining high-purity inorganic fluorides. At Energy 111, 282–287 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-012-9489-6
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