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Plasma processing of spent nuclear fuel by two-frequency ion cyclotron resonance heating

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A previously developed method for analyzing the plasma processing of spent nuclear fuel is generalized to a plasma containing multicharged fuel ions. In such a plasma, ion cyclotron resonance heating of nuclear ash ions should be carried out in two monochromatic RF fields of different frequencies, provided that the fraction of ξ multicharged ions is small, ξ ≤ 0.1, a condition that substantially restricts the productivity of systems for processing spent nuclear fuel. Ways of overcoming this difficulty are discussed.

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  1. Nuclear Fusion Institute, Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, pl. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Timofeev, 2009, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 989–1000.

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Timofeev, A.V. Plasma processing of spent nuclear fuel by two-frequency ion cyclotron resonance heating. Plasma Phys. Rep. 35, 912–923 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X09110026

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