Cameco Corporation

Mikhail Simonovich Ioffe

Uranium trioxide is reduced to uranium dioxide using microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation directed in such a way that the radiation encounters an interface between uranium trioxide and the uranium-containing reduction product without first having passed through that product. By this method, and also using a reducing gas, it is possible to obtain UOwith an O:U ratio less than 2.04:1.

Method and apparatus for reducing uranium trioxide

Uranium trioxide Is reduced to uranium dioxide using microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation directed in such a way that the radiation encounters an Interface between uranium trioxide and the uranium-containing reduction product without first having passed through that product. By this method, and also using a reducing gas, it is possible to obtain UO,with an O:U ratio less than 2.04:1.

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Cobourg, Canada

Mikhail Simonovich Ioffe