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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Premo Chiotti, Ames, IA (US);
Mahesh Chandra Jha, Arvada, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75 8 / ; 423-5 ;
Abstract
Uranium is separated from mixed oxides of thorium and uranium by a pyrometallurgical process in which the oxides are mixed with a molten chloride salt containing thorium tetrachloride and thorium metal which reduces the uranium oxide to uranium metal which can then be recovered from the molten salt. The process is particularly useful for the recovery of uranium from generally insoluble high-density sol-gel thoria-urania nuclear reactor fuel pellets.