Technologies of uranium fluoride compounds and fluorinating agents

The background, main problems, trends in research and achievements of laboratory, and since 1957 - division of pure compounds and metallurgy at the All-Russian Research Institute of Chemical Technology, are described. Special attention is paid to activities of gas fluorination laboratory within the division mentioned, which are aimed at the development of scientific fundamentals of fluoride process and equipment for the development and intensification of uranium hexafluoride, fluorine and hydrogen fluoride production. Major stages of the division activities, which gave rise to the development and introduction of new technologies and reactors featuring up to 100 t of uranium hexafluoride output a day, as well as processes which permit trapping valuable components (UF6, F2 and HF) from dust-gas mixture with efficiency close to 100%, are considered