Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the
2000 International RERTR Meeting
TARGETS DEVELOPMENT OF LOW ENRICHMENT FOR PRODUCTION OF Mo99 FOR FISSION
KOHUT, Carlos; de la FUENTE Mariano; ECHENIQUE, Patricia; PODESTA, Daniel; ADELFANG, Pablo
CNEA-2000
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this work is the replacement of the current targets of High Enrichment Uranium (HEU-90% p. 235U) by a uranium compound of low enrichment (LEU-20% p. 235U) for production of fission Mo99, using a dispersed uranium Aluminum phase.
This work describes the manufacturing of UAl2 compound and the powder metallurgical compact process with an approximate density of 3 gU/cm3 in the targets.
With this load of uranium reached in the targets, Uranium Aluminum can be replaced the current miniplate of High Enrichment Uranium (HEU), without any geometric modifications and maintaining the current process of basic dissolution in the radiochemical process.
The Uranium Aluminide compound was selected due to its very convenient characteristic, specially in density it is 6,42 g/cm3.
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Contact:
Mr. Mariano De La Fuente
Chemical Engineer
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
Unidad de Actividad de Combustibles Nucleares
Centro Atómico Constituyentes-Av. General Paz 1499 Gral San Martin –
Provincia de Buenos Aires
Republic of Argentina
Phone: 011-541-14754-7447
Fax: 011-541-14754-7291
E-mail: lafuente@cnea.gov.ar
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