ANYL 19 |
| The molten salt reactor was one of the concepts retained in the international forum Generation IV (2001) for the future nuclear energy systems. In this concept, the ThF4-UF4 fuel is dissolved in a molten fluoride mixture whose composition is not yet totally defined. In order to prevent any ThO2 or UO2 precipitation, ZrF4 is strongly envisaged as a component (from 5 to 20 mol%) of these future mixtures. Oxoacidic properties of Zr(IV) - which govern the ability to form either zirconium oxyfluoride or oxide - were thermodynamically determined with an oxide amperometric titration technique using a calibrated gold working electrode. The required equilibrium data necessary to precise the oxoacidic range of zirconium(IV)-based molten fluoride salts were so determined |
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Analytical Approaches: Electroanalytical Chemistry
8:30 AM-11:40 AM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 124, Oral
Division of Analytical Chemistry |