Development of metallic nuclear material purification process via simultaneous chlorination and volatilization

Innovative Separations Research and Development Needs for Advanced Fuel Cycles

“…In the last 5 years, chloride volatility has been applied to purifying CeCl 3 (Okabe et al 2021). In this work, uranium metal was successfully hydrided, chlorinated, and volatilized both as a pure metal and as an impurity in Ce metal (see Figure 3.3).…”