Title:
SYNTHESIZING URANIUM CHLORIDE IN MOLTEN SALTS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2018/052529
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Systems and methods for forming UCI3 are provided and can include heating a vessel containing liquid bismuth to a first temperature, mixing a uranium metal, a salt containing NaCI and BiCI3 with the liquid bismuth, maintaining the vessel at the first temperature for a time sufficient to produce a molten NaCl-UCl3 salt, heating the vessel to a second temperature so that the molten NaCl-UCl3 solidifies, and removing the solid NaCl-UCl3 from the vessel.
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Inventors:
SIMPSON MICHAEL (US)
DODSON ANDREW (US)
DODSON ANDREW (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2017/043312
Publication Date:
May 31, 2018
Filing Date:
July 21, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ELYSIUM IND LTD (US)
International Classes:
C22B60/02; G21F9/12
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2018026536A1 | 2018-02-08 |
Foreign References:
| US3251745A | 1966-05-17 | |||
| US20160189806A1 | 2016-06-30 | |||
| US2914399A | 1959-11-24 |
Other References:
SOOBY E. S. ET AL.: "Measurements of the liquidus surface and solidus transitions of the NaCI- UCl3 and NaCl-UCl3-CeCl3 phase diagrams", JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, vol. 466, 2015, pages 280 - 285, XP029292118
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
GEARY, William, C. et al. (US)
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