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Leaching behaviour of non-irradiated and irradiated HTR UO2-ThO2 fuel particles under reducing conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Cyrille Alliot  and
Bernd Grambow
Bernd Grambow
Affiliation:
SUBATECH Laboratory UMR 6457 BP 20722 44307 Nantes cedex 3, France
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Abstract

The dissolution of irradiated HTR UO2-ThO2 fuel particle under reducing conditions was studied using a continuous flow-through reactor and compared to the dissolution of unirradiated fuel particle in the same condition. The irradiated fuel particle was leached for more than eight months. A fast 137Cs release was observed, corresponding to a labile fraction (“instant release fraction”). Then, a congruent leaching of 137Cs and 90Sr was measured corresponding to a matrix dissolution rate equal to 1.7 mg/m2/d. A slower release of 238Pu probably due to sorption phenomena is observed. Dissolution rates are 100-2000 times higher than for unirradiated material. We can conclude that alpha-radiolysis is responsible for this increase due to local oxic conditions. However we cannot exclude that due to irradiation the accessible surface area has been increased as well.

The coating of this irradiated particle was equally studied to determine the presence of different radionuclides and their leaching properties of leaching

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 932: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXIX , 2006 , 70.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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