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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1993
William A Brummond, Livermore, CA (US);
Ravindra S Upadhye, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
An injector nozzle has been designed for safely injecting energetic waste materials, such as high explosives, propellants, and rocket fuels, into a molten salt reactor in a molten salt destruction process without premature detonation or back burn in the injection system. The energetic waste material is typically diluted to form a fluid fuel mixture that is injected rapidly into the reactor. A carrier gas used in the nozzle serves as a carrier for the fuel mixture, and further dilutes the energetic material and increases its injection velocity into the reactor. The injector nozzle is cooled to keep the fuel mixture below the decomposition temperature to prevent spontaneous detonation of the explosive materials before contact with the high-temperature molten salt bath.