The stabilization technology for the damaged spent fuel is being developed to process the damaged fuel into sound pellet suitable for dry re-fabrication. It requires several treatments including oxidative decladding followed by reduction treatment for oxidized powder closely related to the quality of oxidized powders for pellet fabrication. For the development of operating condition for the reduction treatment, in this study, we evaluated the effect of air-cylinder based vertical shaking previously applied to oxidative decladding on powder reduction. For U3O8 of 50-100 g, the reduction test were applied with and without vertical shaking at 700°C under reduction atmosphere (Ar + 4%H2) and the concentration of hydrogen in effluent was measured to evaluate the reduction reaction. It was found that the vertical shaking system has allowed the reaction time of 50 g and 100 g U3O8 reduced by 33% compared to the test in static mode. Based on XRD analysis, the better crystallinity of the products was also achieved.

• Byoungjin So(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Ju Ho Lee(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)) Corresponding author
• Sun Seok Hong(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Seung Chul Oh(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Jae Won Lee(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
• Yung Zun Cho(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))