The issues of including new materials into processing at a radiochemical plant are considered. Taking by way of an example the technology of an RT-1 plant, it is shown that it can be adapted for processing magnesium- containing fuel, fuel with metallic uranium, uranium-beryllium alloy, and shavings of metallic uranium. Criteria for acceptability of the technology for processing nuclear materials are formulated. These criteria, in turn, can be used in determining the directions of research on adapting the technology to reprocessing new types of spent fuel. Approval of the technology for reprocessing new materials made it possible to consider the RT-1 plant as a universal production facility capable of reprocessing any type of spent fuel.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 131, No. 6, pp. 227–236, December, 2021.
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Yermolin, V.S., Lukin, S.A., Bugrov, K.V. et al. Adaptation of RT-1 Plant Technology to Processing of New Types of Spent Nuclear Fuel. At Energy 131, 335–343 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-022-00889-x
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