Published 1991 | Version v1
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Zirconium-made equipment for the new La Hague reprocessing plants

  • 1. Societe Generale pour les Techniques Nouvelles (SGN), 78 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France)

Description

The use of zirconium was developed to solve some problems of severe corrosion in boiling nitric medium, and to guarantee the service life of the equipment concerned. The paper presents the experience gained since the early 1970s, when the first units made of zirconium were used in French reprocessing plants. For the new La Hague UP3 and UP2 800 plants, it was decided to extend the use of zirconium to make large-scale equipment and, to do so, a major R and D program was implemented, of which the main results are presented here. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum.
Imprint Place
Tokyo (Japan)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the third international conference on nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management, RECOD'91
Imprint Pagination
1186 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 570-575.

Conference

Title
3. international conference on nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management, RECOD'91.
Dates
14-18 Apr 1991.
Place
Sendai (Japan).

Optional Information

Notes
Imprint:Composed of two volumes.