Published 1991
| Version v1
Report
Incidents of chemical reactions in cell equipment
Creators
- 1. Uranium Enrichment Organization, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Description
Strongly exothermic reactions can occur between equipment structural components and process gases under certain accident conditions in the diffusion enrichment cascades. This paper describes the conditions required for initiation of these reactions, and describes the range of such reactions experienced over nearly 50 years of equipment operation in the US uranium enrichment program. Factors are cited which can promote or limit the destructive extent of these reactions, and process operations are described which are designed to control the reactions to minimize equipment damage, downtime, and the possibility of material releases
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Uranium hexafluoride handling
- Imprint Pagination
- 295 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 271-276.
- Report number
- CONF-9110117--
Conference
- Title
- 2. international conference on uranium hexafluoride handling.
- Dates
- 29-31 Oct 1991.
- Place
- Oak Ridge, TN (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 25052288
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINE FLUORIDES; COPPER; EQUIPMENT; FRICTION; GASEOUS DIFFUSION PROCESS; METALS; NICKEL; STEELS; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ALLOYS; CARBON ADDITIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELEMENTS; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; IRON ALLOYS; IRON BASE ALLOYS; ISOTOPE SEPARATION; SEPARATION PROCESSES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM FLUORIDES