Accident in Continuous-Dissolver Pilot Plant of Fluoride Volatility Project on May 15, 1957
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The so-called Fluoride Volatility Processes refer to several proposed non-aqueous methods of processing irradiated fuel elements. In each of these methods, the uranium is fluorinated to UF6 and then decontaminated by distillation. One of those methods, involving the direct fluorination of the uranium by bromine trifluoride (BTF), has been under investigation at BNL since 1950. In 1952, it was demonstrated at BNL that uranium, as UF6, could be satisfactorily decontaminated by distillation in sma…
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Date:
July 10, 1957
Creator:
Strickland, Gerald; Horn, F. L.; Johnson, Richard & Dwyer, O. E.
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