Investigating the reduction kinetics of high molecular weight metal oxides in molten salts using in-situ neutron diffraction

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There is a pressing worldwide need for research to develop specific sustainable spent fuel reprocessing technologies suitable for minimizing waste from next generation nuclear reactors, as well as for dealing with legacy waste fuel from old reactors - one such solution utilises molten salt reactors to reprocess spent nuclear fuel for re-use in closed loop reactor cycles. The authors are studying the reduction of depleted uranium oxides (and other analogue materials) in a lithium/potassium chloride eutectic salt. In order to explore the mechanism of the reduction process in-situ, we propose to use neutron diffraction at Engin-X coupled with chrono-amperometry - the authors intend to deduce the kinetics and exact electrochemical reduction sequences of these processes which have significant potential impact on the nuclear industry.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090567
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090567
Provenance
Creator Dr Shu Yan Zhang; Dr Martin Jones; Dr Paul Shearing; Mr Leon Brown; Dr Dan Brett; Professor Doug Inman; Ms Rema Abdulaziz; Mr Rhodri Jervis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-08-04T15:44:50Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-09-17T08:48:28Z