The ability to separate fission products by electrodeposition from molten salts depends, in part, on differences between the interactions of the different fission product cations with the ions present in the molten salt "solvent". These differences may be expressed as ratios of activity coefficients, which depend on the identity of the solvent and other factors. Here, we demonstrate the ability...

Molten mixtures of lithium chloride and metallic lithium are of significant interest in various metal oxide reduction processes. These solutions have been reported to exhibit seemingly anomalous physical characteristics that lack a comprehensive explanation. In the current work, the physical chemistry of molten solutions of lithium chloride and metallic lithium, with and without lithium oxide, ...

The use of molten salts as novel green solvents which may replace conventional media in chemical processes implies a good knowledge of their micro­ scopic structure [1]. As known, high temperature NMR spectroscopy has been applied successfully to molten salts. This technique permits to obtain information about the structure and dynamics of the local environment of most of the nuclei in salt mel...

The release of fission products and fuel materials from a molten-salt fast-reactor in hypothetical accident conditions was investigated. fast reactor this investigation features neutron spectrum, operating the thorium cycle, it uses LiF-ThF4-UF4 as salt. A coupling between severe code MELCOR thermodynamical equilibrium solver GEMS, so-called cGEMS, with updated HERACLES database used modeling w...