Reprocessing in France. Some aspects of process chemistry

Like any young industry, reprocessing has, from the outset, been the focus of successive improvements to raise it to a satisfactory level of reliability, both in process design and implementation. This paper deals with the chemistry aspect of the process. The subject is obviously too vast to make a complete review, in the time allowed, of process development in French plants and of the research work conducted for improvements. We shall therefore discuss the main guidelines and the development trends, illustrating them with a number of examples