TY - CONF
T1 - Enhancing MA transmutation by irradiation of (Ma, Zr)Hx in FBR blanket region - Fabrication of (AM, Zr) alloy -
AU - Hirai, Mutsumi
AU - Higuchi, Toru
AU - Ouchi, Atsushi
AU - Konashi, Kenji
AU - Muta, Hiroaki
AU - Kurosaki, Ken
AU - Yefimov, Vadim A.
AU - Lizin, Andrey A.
AU - Tomilin, Sergey V.
AU - Osipenko, Alexander G.
AU - Poglyad, Sergey S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The present study includes the result of “Development of minor actinides (MAs)-Zr hydride based transmutation technologies of nuclear wastes for early realization” entrusted to Tohoku University by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT).
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The fabrication methods of MA-Zr hydride were studied by using Nd and Sm. Samples of hydrides with rare earth element (REE) were obtained by alloying individual metals with their subsequent saturation of the gaseous hydrogen using the Sieverts' method. The resulting Zr-REE hydrides are formed by the basic cubic δ-phase that is close to ZrH1.66 in stoichiometry. Preliminary AmO2 was extracted by radiochemical method from aged PuO2. Am metal was obtained by the pyrochemical method from dioxide in molten salt LiCl-Li2O in an inert glove box. The X-Ray diffraction pattern (XRD) of the metallized product was characterized by the presence of diffraction reflexes of cubic metal lithium and metal americium. No oxide phase reflexes were observed. By using the obtained Am metal, Am-Zr-Fe-Al alloy pellets were prepared. The XRD of the alloy was characterized by the presence of the main Laves phase, an intermetallic compound with structural type of Al2FeZr6. The results of the work can be used for the fabrication of hydride targets for americium transmutation in FBR blanket region.
AB - The fabrication methods of MA-Zr hydride were studied by using Nd and Sm. Samples of hydrides with rare earth element (REE) were obtained by alloying individual metals with their subsequent saturation of the gaseous hydrogen using the Sieverts' method. The resulting Zr-REE hydrides are formed by the basic cubic δ-phase that is close to ZrH1.66 in stoichiometry. Preliminary AmO2 was extracted by radiochemical method from aged PuO2. Am metal was obtained by the pyrochemical method from dioxide in molten salt LiCl-Li2O in an inert glove box. The X-Ray diffraction pattern (XRD) of the metallized product was characterized by the presence of diffraction reflexes of cubic metal lithium and metal americium. No oxide phase reflexes were observed. By using the obtained Am metal, Am-Zr-Fe-Al alloy pellets were prepared. The XRD of the alloy was characterized by the presence of the main Laves phase, an intermetallic compound with structural type of Al2FeZr6. The results of the work can be used for the fabrication of hydride targets for americium transmutation in FBR blanket region.
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85081090958
SP - 451
EP - 459
T2 - 14th International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference, GLOBAL 2019 and Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference, TOP FUEL 2019
Y2 - 22 September 2019 through 27 September 2019
ER -