Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization

The analysis of the multicomponent composition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is presented. The possibility of SNF separation from the fission products (FP) upon heating, evaporation and ionization (at difference of the ionization potentials and dissociation energies) is considered. Further SNF posttre...

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Автори: Yuferov, V.B., Katrechko, V.V., Mufel, E.V., Svichkar, A.S., Ilichova, V.O., Khizhnyak, S.N., Shariy, S.V.
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description The analysis of the multicomponent composition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is presented. The possibility of SNF separation from the fission products (FP) upon heating, evaporation and ionization (at difference of the ionization potentials and dissociation energies) is considered. Further SNF posttreatment from FP is carried out by plasma methods. It is shown that for simulation of the SNF reprocessing in this stage the most appropriate medium is oxide plasma of nonradioactive ²³⁸U, Zr, Nb, Mo and lanthanides. Проведен анализ многокомпонентного состава отработанного ядерного топлива (ОЯТ). Рассмотрена возможность очистки ОЯТ от продуктов деления (ПД) при нагреве, испарении и ионизации (по различию потенциалов ионизации и энергий диссоциации). Дальнейшая очистка ОЯТ от ПД проводится плазменными методами. Показано, что для имитационного моделирования очистки ОЯТ на этой стадии наиболее подходящим является состав плазмы нерадиоактивных окислов ²³⁸U , Zr, Nb, Mo и лантаноидов. Проведено аналiз багатокомпонентного складу вiдпрацьованого ядерного палива (ВЯП). Розглянуто можливiсть очищення ВЯП вiд продуктiв дiлення (ПД) при нагрiваннi, випаровуваннi i iонiзацiї (по вiдмiнностi потенцiалiв iонiзацiї i енергiй дисоцiацiї). Подальше очищення ВЯП вiд ПД проводиться плазмовими методами. Показано, що для iмiтацiйного моделювання очищення ВЯП на цiй стадiї найбiльш пiдходящим є склад плазми нерадiоактивних окислiв ²³⁸U , Zr, Nb, Mo i лантаноїдiв.
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fulltext FEATURES OF MOLECULAR PLASMA SNF AFTER HEATING AND IONIZATION V.B.Yuferov, S.V.Shariy, V.V.Katrechko∗, E.V.Mufel, A.S. Svichkar, V.O. Ilichova, S.N.Khizhnyak National Science Center ”Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology”, 61108, Kharkov, Ukraine (Received March 24, 2014) The analysis of the multicomponent composition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is presented. The possibility of SNF separation from the fission products (FP) upon heating, evaporation and ionization (at difference of the ionization potentials and dissociation energies) is considered. Further SNF posttreatment from FP is carried out by plasma methods. It is shown that for simulation of the SNF reprocessing in this stage the most appropriate medium is oxide plasma of nonradioactive 238U , Zr, Nb, Mo and lanthanides. PACS: 621.039.624 Now the problem of SNF reprocessing is solved partially by radiochemical methods, in particular - PUREX process used in France, UK, Japan and Rus- sia. Usage of the radiochemical technologies leads to appearance of great amount of liquid radioactive solutions and the reproccesing require evaporation, storage and burial of radioactive waste (RW). Gas- fluoride technology is currently being developed with a toxic fluoride. It is also possible to use magne- toplasma (MP) SNF reprocessing that needs only physical methods for separation of spent nuclear fuel to nuclear fuel (NF) and FP and does not re- quire chemicals reagents. Its application does not increase the volume of radioactive waste carrying 90% of the radioactivity. When separated from the FP, the actinide isotopes can be reused as NF, and FP have to be buried. MP technology [1] which is used for separation of RW, also can be used for SNF reprocessing. Investigations on MP SNF sep- aration have been carried out in NSC KIPT [2-6], where the experiments were conducted on separa- tion of inert gases, and physical principles of MP separation of the multicomponent plasma as SNF imitation media were considered. Sequential stages of SNF separation were proposed, which, besides the MP separation of elements at masses difference include heating and ionization (separation at differ- ence in vapor pressure and ionization potentials). Therefore experiments of MP separation are carried out with simulation media preferably chosen with a certain degree of approximation to the physicochem- ical properties of the SNF composition after heating and ionization. Under neutron irradiation of ura- nium fuel, 235U is divided in a ratio of about 3:2:1, and is converted to FP (Fig.1) and part of 238U is converted in the plutonium. The appearance of the plutonium isotopes shifts the distribution function of FP to large masses (see Fig.1), but it does not influ- ence on SNF MP separation, since the separation of the NF and FP means separation of groups of ele- ments with very different masses (△M ∼ 70 a.m.u.). Fig.1.Percentage yield of fission products 10% FP (by amount of nuclei) appear at burnup of 5% 235U after unloading from the light water reac- tor. In addition to the impurities it is possible to take FP of plutonium and minor actinoids – Np, Am, Cm. Thus the total amount of impurities goes to 15% (by amount of nuclei), which in the first ap- proximation have uniform distribution in the volume. However, due to prolonged irradiation at relatively high temperature a segregation of impurities as ox- ides, compounds or elements can occur. In the process of nuclei 235U decay, fission frag- ments appear, scattering with energies of hundreds of MeV . In the process of braking in the target, molecules UO2 dissociates into components U , O, ∗Corresponding author E-mail address: katrechko.v@mail.ru ISSN 1562-6016. PROBLEMS OF ATOMIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2014, N5 (93). Series: Nuclear Physics Investigations (63), p.63-68. 63 UO, O2, in mainly, in the excited and ionized states. These components can bind with FP, forming new compounds, such as: : ZrO, UJ , CeO, UO, CsH, UCe etc. These compounds have different binding energies and ionization potentials (Tables 1 and 2). Table 1. The bond energy of some dimers A-B Cs2 Na2 Sn2 U2 Au2 Ta2 Mo2 Nb2 W2 eV 0,46 0,66 1,94 2,31 3,3 4,05 4,52 5,33 6,92 Table 2. The bond energy of some hybrids with hydrogen and oxygen A-B eV A-B eV A-B eV A-B eV H-Hg 0,41 H-T 4,57 F-O 2,28 Gd-O 7,42 D-Hg 0,44 D-D 4,6 Zn-O 2,6 Nb-O 7,54 T-Hg 0,45 D-T 4,62 Na-O 2,8 Np-O 7,59 H-Mg 1,32 K-O 2,82 Pr-O 7,68 H-Na 1,93 Mg-O 3,72 U-O 7,84 H-Nb 2,3 Ca-O 3,98 Zr-O 7,96 Bi-H 2,94 Fe-O 4,23 Ce-O 8,2 H-Pt 3,43 O-O 5,18 H-S 3,67 Nd-O 7,3 As seen from Tables 1 and 2, compounds with oxy- gen, have the highest binding energy. Compounds with hydrogen also constitute substantial amount while the inert gases create dimers with a bond en- ergy of not more than 0.45 eV . This is necessary to take into account at heating and ionization of SNF when gases are removed, the elements with high va- por pressure and low ionization potential, and less dissociation energies of molecules than that of ura- nium oxides. Really the degassing process will be more complex upon heating, and the temperature may not correspond to the vapor pressure of many simple compounds. Fig.2 shows the melting and boiling points of ele- ments with mass numbers from 2 to 254. Fig.2. Melting and boiling points of elements(excluding gases) In Figs. 3a, b, c - the same elements, but in mass intervals a) 1...64, b) 176...260, c) FP. In Figure 3c short stretches between melting and evaporation curves correspond to temperatures at which the va- por pressure of the elements corresponds to the vapor pressure of about 1 ∼ Torr, and the evaporation rate is about 1 · 10−2g cm2c−1, which significantly affects on operation of plasma source. The horizontal lines on Fig.3, a, b, c show that when heated to these tem- peratures, a considerable amount of impurities may be removed from the spent nuclear fuel. 64 Fig.3. Melting and boiling points of elements with the division into three parts (a – mass numbers from 1 to 64, b – mass numbers from 176 to 260, c – FP) Figure 4 shows the ionization potentials of the elements and the dissociation energies for elements with mass numbers from 1 to 240. In Fig.4, b the selected area for elements with atomic numbers 30 to 70, corresponding to FP, is shown. The solid horizon- tal lines in both figures correspond to ionization po- tentials and dissociation energies of uranium oxides. Therefore, the elements having the smaller ionization potentials and the smaller bond energy than that of the uranium and its oxides can be removed from SNF at heating and ionization. 65 Fig.4. Ionization potentials of the elements and the binding energy of the oxides (a – for elements with atomic numbers from 1 to 240, b – for FP) Fig.5. Dissociation energy of various oxides 66 Fig.6. The ionization potentials and binding energies of oxides and elements: La, Ce, Nd, Zr, Mo, Ca, W, U Fig.5 shows the dissociation energy of FP oxides [6] It is seen that a small amount of FP oxides have dissociation energies close to the values of uranium oxides. These substances are in the 4-shaded sections which correspond to: first – Ge, second – Zr, Mo, Nb, Tc, 3-rd and 4-th – the lanthanides – La, Ce, Nd, Pr; Sm, Eu, Gd. However, FP from first and the fourth sections have content of ∼ 10−3%, and this admixture can be ignored. For this reason, the refractory W , Os and Th can be ignored too (see Fig.4a). Figure 5 shows that SNF separation from FP of 2nd and 3rd sections by this principle is impos- sible, and they will be in the mixture with actinide oxides. Thus, Zr, Mo, Nb, Tc, lanthanides and other actinides remain in admixture with uranium oxide, which is a working material for MP SNF separation . In Figure 6 the bond energies and ionization po- tentials are given for some of the above mentioned elements. Among them are: Zr, Mo, Nb, and lan- thanoids: La, Ce, Nd; and U . Ca and W are given for comparison in a possible simulation. The figure shows that the ionization potentials of uranium and its oxides is less than the ionization potentials of lan- thanide oxides and Zr, Mo, Nb. However, for a defi- nite choice of the electron energy, Mo will is partially ionized and very little Zr and lanthanides will be ion- ized . So, for simulation of MP SNF separation, it is ad- visable to use the nonradioactive oxides of 238U , Zr, Mo, Nb and lanthanides as a working material. CONCLUSIONS Heating and ionization of SNF allows to derive the main amount of impurities (waste). After remov- ing elements from SNF at the stages of heating and ionization, except NF oxides limited amount of FP oxides remain constituting molecular SNF plasma. 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Ïîêàçàíî, ÷òî äëÿ èìèòàöèîííîãî ìîäåëèðîâàíèÿ î÷èñòêè ÎßÒ íà ýòîé ñòà- äèè íàèáîëåå ïîäõîäÿùèì ÿâëÿåòñÿ ñîñòàâ ïëàçìû íåðàäèîàêòèâíûõ îêèñëîâ 238U , Zr, Nb, Mo è ëàíòàíîèäîâ. ÎÑÎÁËÈÂÎÑÒI ÌÎËÅÊÓËßÐÍÎ� ÏËÀÇÌÈ ÂßÏ ÏIÑËß ÍÀÃÐIÂÓ I IÎÍIÇÀÖI� Â.Á.Þôåðîâ, Ñ.Â.Øàðèé, Â.Â.Êàòðå÷êî, Å.Â.Ìóôåëü, Î.Ñ.Ñâi÷êàð, Â.Î.Èëi÷üîâà, Ñ.Ì.Õiæíÿê Ïðîâåäåíî àíàëiç áàãàòîêîìïîíåíòíîãî ñêëàäó âiäïðàöüîâàíîãî ÿäåðíîãî ïàëèâà (ÂßÏ). Ðîçãëÿíóòî ìîæëèâiñòü î÷èùåííÿ ÂßÏ âiä ïðîäóêòiâ äiëåííÿ (ÏÄ) ïðè íàãðiâàííi, âèïàðîâóâàííi i iîíiçàöi¨ (ïî âiäìiííîñòi ïîòåíöiàëiâ iîíiçàöi¨ i åíåðãié äèñîöiàöi¨). Ïîäàëüøå î÷èùåííÿ ÂßÏ âiä ÏÄ ïðîâîäèòüñÿ ïëàçìîâèìè ìåòîäàìè. Ïîêàçàíî, ùî äëÿ iìiòàöiéíîãî ìîäåëþâàííÿ î÷èùåííÿ ÂßÏ íà öié ñòàäi¨ íàé- áiëüø ïiäõîäÿùèì ¹ ñêëàä ïëàçìè íåðàäiîàêòèâíèõ îêèñëiâ 238U , Zr, Nb, Mo i ëàíòàíî¨äiâ. 68
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Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization / V.B. Yuferov, S.V. Shariy, V.V. Katrechko, E.V. Mufel, A.S. Svichkar, V.O. Ilichova, S.N. Khizhnyak // Вопросы атомной науки и техники. — 2014. — № 5. — С. 63-68. — Бібліогр.: 7 назв. — англ.
1562-6016
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/80486
The analysis of the multicomponent composition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is presented. The possibility of SNF separation from the fission products (FP) upon heating, evaporation and ionization (at difference of the ionization potentials and dissociation energies) is considered. Further SNF posttreatment from FP is carried out by plasma methods. It is shown that for simulation of the SNF reprocessing in this stage the most appropriate medium is oxide plasma of nonradioactive ²³⁸U, Zr, Nb, Mo and lanthanides.
Проведен анализ многокомпонентного состава отработанного ядерного топлива (ОЯТ). Рассмотрена возможность очистки ОЯТ от продуктов деления (ПД) при нагреве, испарении и ионизации (по различию потенциалов ионизации и энергий диссоциации). Дальнейшая очистка ОЯТ от ПД проводится плазменными методами. Показано, что для имитационного моделирования очистки ОЯТ на этой стадии наиболее подходящим является состав плазмы нерадиоактивных окислов ²³⁸U , Zr, Nb, Mo и лантаноидов.
Проведено аналiз багатокомпонентного складу вiдпрацьованого ядерного палива (ВЯП). Розглянуто можливiсть очищення ВЯП вiд продуктiв дiлення (ПД) при нагрiваннi, випаровуваннi i iонiзацiї (по вiдмiнностi потенцiалiв iонiзацiї i енергiй дисоцiацiї). Подальше очищення ВЯП вiд ПД проводиться плазмовими методами. Показано, що для iмiтацiйного моделювання очищення ВЯП на цiй стадiї найбiльш пiдходящим є склад плазми нерадiоактивних окислiв ²³⁸U , Zr, Nb, Mo i лантаноїдiв.
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Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут» НАН України
Вопросы атомной науки и техники
Ядерно-физические методы и обработка данных
Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
Особенности молекулярной плазмы ОЯТ после нагрева и ионизации
Особливостi молекулярно. плазми ВЯП пiсля нагрiву i iонiзацi.
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spellingShingle Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
Yuferov, V.B.
Katrechko, V.V.
Mufel, E.V.
Svichkar, A.S.
Ilichova, V.O.
Khizhnyak, S.N.
Shariy, S.V.
Ядерно-физические методы и обработка данных
title Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
title_alt Особенности молекулярной плазмы ОЯТ после нагрева и ионизации
Особливостi молекулярно. плазми ВЯП пiсля нагрiву i iонiзацi.
title_full Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
title_fullStr Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
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title_short Features of molecular plasma SNF after heating and ionization
title_sort features of molecular plasma snf after heating and ionization
topic Ядерно-физические методы и обработка данных
topic_facet Ядерно-физические методы и обработка данных
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