Example operating procedure for an automation concept of electrochemical process

Various ways to reduce the toxic waste in spent fuel has been extensively explored. Pyroprocessing has been studied as one option for compressing down the waste, by recycling 95 percent of Uranium from the spent fuel. The spent fuel is highly radioactive so that the treatment should be performed in a hot cell. The human operator is not allowed to access in the hot cell, thus he or she uses remote devices in order to manipulate material or equipment from outside of the hot cell. In this research, operating procedures for the proposed preliminary automation concept is discussed in detail. An example operation procedure for an automation concept of electrochemical process was proposed in this research. The developed operation procedures were based on one automation zone, which was introduced in the preliminary automation concept for integrated Pyroprocessing. The example operation procedure was compiled as one flowchart form.