[HTML][HTML] Electrochemical processing of spent nuclear fuels: An overview of oxide reduction in pyroprocessing technology

EY Choi, SM Jeong - Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 2015 - Elsevier
The electrochemical reduction process has been used to reduce spent oxide fuel to a
metallic form using pyroprocessing technology for a closed fuel cycle in combination with a …

Recovery of actinides and fission products from spent nuclear fuel via electrolytic reduction: Thematic overview

AY Galashev - International Journal of Energy Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from modern light water or thermal reactors containing uranium
oxide with small concentrations of plutonium and other actinide oxides is converted into …

Lower temperature electrochemical reduction of lunar regolith simulants in molten salts

A Meurisse, B Lomax, Á Selmeci, M Conti… - Planetary and space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extraction of oxygen from lunar soil is key to the sustainability of human and robotic
operations on the Moon and would open the path to in-space refuelling with space …

Metallic lithium and the reduction of actinide oxides

A Merwin, MA Williamson, JL Willit… - Journal of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Extensive research and process development has been conducted on the electrolytic
reduction of actinide oxides in molten LiCl-Li 2 O. It is now accepted that the reduction of …

Non-contact gaseous microplasma electrode as anode for electrodeposition of metal and metal alloy in molten salt

J Luo, Q Qing, L Huang, Z Wang, S Liu, J Chen… - Chinese Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplasma based on glow discharge could act as a non-contact gaseous electrode and
has attracted much attention in both fundamental research and application. Herein, with …

Electrochemical extraction of uranium from U3O8 by preparing flower-shaped Al-U intermetallics in LiCl-KCl-AlCl3 melts

X Xu, X Wang, V Smolenski, W Mi, Y Yan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents the electrochemical behavior of U 3 O 8 and the formation of Al-U
intermetallics in LiCl-KCl-AlCl 3 melts at 813 K by various electrochemical test methods. The …

Presence of Li clusters in molten LiCl-Li

A Merwin, WC Phillips, MA Williamson, JL Willit… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Molten mixtures of lithium chloride and metallic lithium are of significant interest in various
metal oxide reduction processes. These solutions have been reported to exhibit seemingly …

Applicability of nickel ferrite anode to electrolytic reduction of metal oxides in LiCl-Li2O melt at 923 K

Y Sakamura, M Iizuka - Electrochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of an oxygen-evolving inert anode is of crucial importance for the
electrolytic reduction process of nuclear oxide fuels using a LiCl-Li 2 O salt bath. Metal …

Can carbon be an anode for electrochemical reduction in a LiCl-Li2O molten salt?

JM Hur, JS Cha, EY Choi - ECS Electrochemistry Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrochemical reduction of UO 2 in a LiCl-Li 2 O molten salt using a C anode was
investigated. Possible reduction and oxidation reactions were characterized. UO 2 was …

Carbon anode with repeatable use of LiCl molten salt for electrolytic reduction in pyroprocessing

SW Kim, MK Jeon, HW Kang, SK Lee, EY Choi… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2016 - Springer
Carbon was investigated as an anode material for electrolytic reduction in pyroprocessing.
UO 2 was successfully reduced to U repeatedly using the carbon anode and the LiCl molten …