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From: Giacinto, Joseph Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 2:05 PM To: AdvancedReactors-GEISDocsPEm Resource
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INL - INL HALEU Capabilities Attachments: Todd 2020 INL_Capabilities.pdf
INL HALEU Capabilities Terry Todd, Laboratory Fellow NEI/GAIN/EPRI HALEU Video Workshop April 28, 2020
Outline
- Recast- metal product
- Small-scale polishing- oxide product
- Headend treatment (ZIRCEX)
- Processing (pilot-scale and engineering-scale) 2
EBR-II Driver fuel processing Electrorefined uranium dendrite product Cast uranium product 3 ingot 3
Pyroprocessing - EBR II Driver Fuel Spent Driver Electrorefined Uranium Ingot
HALEU EBR-II Metal Feedstock Progress
- HALEU as metal from EBR-II is the nearest term feedstock available to support fast-spectrum advanced reactor concepts
- Processing of EBR-II driver fuel will continue until all driver fuel is processed
- Production of EBR-II HALEU reguli will continue until all EBR-II driver fuel has been treated
- Operations ramp up to 7 day/wk, 12 hr/day
- 0.365 MT produced in 2019
- 2nd furnace available 2020 - 1 MT/year
- 5 MT forecast to be available by 2024 Recovered U metal Large metallic ingot New graphite crucible Low dose rate, small size Novel Multi-function furnace HALEU metal regulus 5
HALEU EBR-II Oxide Feedstock Demonstration
- Polished EBR-II uranium product suitable for thermal spectrum reactors
- Demonstrated U Polishing in small-scale equipment (using equipment on-hand)
- Dissolution of EBR II uranium metal regulus
- Uranium purification from residual fission products by solvent extraction
- Precipitation of uranium using peroxide process
- Uranium oxide produced by calcination Uranyl Peroxide Uranium Oxide Low dose rate, small size Uranium Trioxide HALEU metal regulus U metal dissolution U purification 6
U metal regulus Uranyl Peroxide - UO2(O2).4H2O UO2 pellets EBR-II oxide product characteristics
- All metal species except uranium were below analytical detection limits
- Uranium isotopic analysis (same as metal)
- U-235: 19.77%
- U-238: 79.5 %
- U-234: 0.18%
- U-236: 0.55 %
- Dose rates (theoretical dose for unirradiated 20% U-235 HALEU) 8
Dry headend for zirconium or aluminum clad fuels 9
ZIRCEX Headend Progress
- Pilot plant operational on October 3, 2019
- Zirconium decladding testing initiated (10 completed runs to date)
- 2020 test schedule to include Zr and Al
- Receipt of unirradiated HEU fuel elements was completed in November 2019 Instantaneous and overall reaction rate with HCl gas and zirconium Zirconium sample after dry ZIRCEX decladding process Simulated Zircaloy-2 clad fuel
Process scale-up
- Design of pilot-scale processing glove box line for clean or lightly irradiated materials - in progress
- Dissolution/solvent extraction/
conversion/waste vitrification
- EBR-II product (19.7% HALEU)
- ZIRCEX pilot plant product (unirradiated HEU)
- Other fuel/orphan materials
- Engineering-scale demonstration conceptual design in progress
- Projected 1-2 MT/yr of HALEU based on EBR-II and ATR recycled fuels 11
Projected INL HALEU Production Rates HALEU Production 2
1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 HALEU (MT) 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 Year EBR II Production HZD Production 12
2021 - Planned Activities
- Continue processing EBR-II driver fuel
- Continue to recast previously processed EBR-II uranium product into reguli
- A total of 1 MT of HALEU reguli will be produced per year
- Complete testing of Zr and Al simulated fuels
- Initiate testing of unirradiated HEU fuel
- Complete design of pilot-scale glovebox line for polishing EBR-II product and ZIRCEX HEU product
- Complete conceptual design of Hybrid-ZIRCEX Engineering-Scale Demonstration
- Initiate NEPA (Environmental Assessment) for Hybrid-ZIRCEX Engineering-Scale Demonstration
- Complete construction of in-can vitrification pilot plant 13