Progress in chemical processing for production of plutonium-238 from irradiated neptunium oxide cermet targets

David W. DePaoli, Dennis E. Benker, Lætitia H. Delmau, Emory D. Collins, Robert M. Wham

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Abstract

Development is ongoing as Oak Ridge National Laboratory restarts production of238Pu from237Np. Several technical accomplishments have been achieved in the initial two processing tests with irradiated targets at a batch size of one-third of the planned production scale. A third processing campaign is underway with a larger batch of targets than previous tests; this campaign is focused on addressing key issues identified in previous tests and producing heat-source plutonium oxide.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
Pages360-363
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781510859609
StatePublished - 2016
EventNuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Feb 26 2018Mar 1 2018

Publication series

NameNuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018

Conference

ConferenceNuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period02/26/1803/1/18

Funding

Funding for this program is provided by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the US Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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