uranium hexafluoride, ammonia blowing process

Categories:
Categories:
Non-Ferrous Metals and Products/Primary Smelting and Refining of Non-Ferrous Metals/miscellaneous primary smelting and refining of non-ferrous metals
Location:
JP - Japan
Reference year: 2008 - 2008
Description

This unit process represents the production/service of 1kg of uranium hexafluoride, ammonia blowing process ,in Japan created from statistical information and other sources.
The system boundary of this process is "(yellowcake) -> extraction -> firing -> reduction -> fluoridation."

Technology

Production of uranium hexafluoride fromyellow cake.Ammonia blowing method.Yellow cake is dissolved in nitric acid, extracted as uranyl nitrate by organic solvent and back extracted with water, to separate the impurities.
It blows ammonia and makes uranyl nitrate, calcines this and makes uranium trioxide.
After uranium dioxide is formed by hydrogen reduction, uranium tetrafluoride is formed from hydrogen fluoride, and uranium hexafluoride is formed from fluorin.

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Process type
Unit
Supported nomenclature
Other, ECOSPOLD2
LCI modeling approach
Attributional
Multifunctional modeling
CAUSAL
Format
Other
Aggregation type
UNKNOWN
Data provider
IDEA
Review status
Internal
Cost
For sale
License

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Copyrighted
Yes
Copyright holder
AIST, JEMAI
Contact
support (at) idea-lca.jp