Technology of procrssing uranium hexafluoride using to ammonium fluoride

Abstract

Currently in production technology of hexafluoride uranium has some problems connected with the expenses for its production and safety. Uranium - 235 has extensive use in separation of isotopes, because it is only one volatile compound of uranium wherein fluoride which has only one isotope. At the present time production technology of UF6 needs a lot of elemental fluorine and this requires more money. In this science work we examined the ability of production of hexafluoride uranium in connection with ammonium fluoride, which is received by extracting the fluorine ion from depleted hexafluoride uranium. This process offers the challenge to utilize accumulated depleted hexafluoride uranium. In Russian there are hundreds of tons of accumulated depleted hexafluoride uranium.