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Operating and maintenance experiences of rebottling equipment for plutonium dioxide powder received from foreign country

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  • 1. Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)

Description

In January of 1993, plutonium dioxide powder was received from the reprocessing plant 'La Hague' of COGEMA in France to Plutonium Fuel Production Facility (PFPF) of JAEA to use as feed powder of MOX fuel for FBR prototype 'Monju'. Since the plutonium dioxide powder was contained in COGEMA type canisters, the powder had to be rebottled from CCGEMA type canisters to JAEA type canisters which can be handled in the PFPF. Therefore feed powder rebottling equipment and temporary feed storage equipment were developed and installed in the PFPF. Rebottling work with their equipments was started from March of 1993 and completed in March of 2006. This report summarizes operating and maintenance experiences on feed powder rebottling equipment and temporary feed storage equipment. It's important to reflect the operating and maintenance experiences of the rebottling equipment into design of a new rebottling equipment for uranium-plutonium mixed oxide powder. (author)

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Available from JAEA; DOI: https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-technology-2012-042

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DOI
10.11484/jaea-technology-2012-042;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
108 p.
Report number
JAEA-Technology--2012-042

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Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
44122832
Subject category
S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
Descriptors DEI
AREVA NC LA HAGUE; CONTAINERS; FRANCE; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; MONJU REACTOR; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM DIOXIDE; POWDERS; REACTOR OPERATION
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ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; AREVA NC; BREEDER REACTORS; CHALCOGENIDES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; EUROPE; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; FUELS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; MATERIALS; METALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; OPERATION; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM OXIDES; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SODIUM COOLED REACTORS; SOLID FUELS; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WESTERN EUROPE

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