Laser isotope separation in nuclear-waste by-product utilization
Abstract
Various by-products in spent nuclear fuels including strategic metals are uniquely useful and of high intrinsic value. Isotope separation is necessary to achieve the full benefits of fission product partitioning, increasing the specific activity of radioactive modifications or reducing the intrinsic radiation associated with various elements. The atomic vapor laser isotope separation process, under large scale development of uranium enrichment, applies to most of the spent fuel nuclides and offers attractive benefit to costs.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Nucl. Waste Management Symp
- Pub Date:
- February 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983nwm..symp.....D
- Keywords:
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- By-Products;
- Materials Recovery;
- Photoionization;
- Radioactive Wastes;
- Radiochemical Separation;
- Spent Fuels;
- Utilization;
- Cost Analysis;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Marketing;
- Prediction Analysis Techniques;
- Thermoelectric Generators;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics