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We consider the method of plasma separation of spent nuclear fuel in a system with an azimuthal magnetic field and the electric potential produced by electrodes located in a magnetized plasma. The results of calculation of trajectories of ions simulating uranium and the first peak of its fission products in the oneparticle approximation are described. The effect of the initial position and the initial velocity of ions on their trajectories is analyzed. The conditions ensuring the spatial separation of ions in the groups of masses admissible for practical realization are specified; it is shown that currents on the order of 100 kA through the central conductor and electrostatic potentials on the order of 1 kV are required for this purpose.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Samokhin, V.P. Smirnov, A.V. Gavrikov, N.A. Vorona, 2016, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 127–133.
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Samokhin, A.A., Smirnov, V.P., Gavrikov, A.V. et al. Possibility of separating spent nuclear fuel components by a plasma method in azimuthal magnetic and radial electric fields. Tech. Phys. 61, 283–289 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784216020298
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