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Production of Uranium Hexafluoride with Low 234U Content in a Cascade with Intermediate Product

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A scheme is proposed for purifying native uranium hexafluoride in a cascade with one feed stream, two product streams, and one waste stream. The cascade is reckoned as quasi-ideal with adjustments of the obtained 235U concentration for the prescribed content in the external streams. A product with native 235U concentration and low 234U concentration is produced in the intermediate product stream of the cascade. Low-enrichment uranium hexafluoride intended for fabricating nuclear fuel is obtained in the main product stream. A high-quality diluent for high-enrichment uranium or low-enrichment uranium hexafluoride with 234U content less than the ASTM C 996–10 limit norm by a factor of 1.5–2.5 can be produced from the intermediate product.

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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 121, No. 6, pp. 332–336, December, 2016.

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Palkin, V.A. Production of Uranium Hexafluoride with Low 234U Content in a Cascade with Intermediate Product. At Energy 121, 424–429 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-017-0222-3

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