Russia contactor

As the focus of this book is on nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear-waste cleanup, we will focus on applications in these areas. This section will look at the reprocessing of nuclear fuel and the cleanup and segregation of nuclear waste with SRL and ANL contactors. Finally, other centrifugal contactors used for nuclear processing in France, Japan, Russia, and China will be discussed. 

The 3.3-cm Russian contactors were used to test a cobalt-dicarbollide-based solvent-extraction process for separating Cs, Sr, and the actinides from dissolved HLW (Law et al., 2001, Herbst et al., 2002). These contactors were designed and fabricated in Moscow, Russia, by the Research and Development Institute of Construction Technology (NIKIMT). They are operated at 2700 rpm and have a nominal throughput of 417 mL/min (25 L/h). Figure 10.25 shows the 26-stage 3.3-cm contactor bank used in these tests. A recent summary of this work is given by Romanovskiy et al. (2005). 

Gaeta SN. Membrane contactors Apphcation to industrial processes. 1st Workshop Italy-Russia, Cetraro (CS), Italy, September 17-20, 2003. 

Gae ta S.N. (2003), Membrane contactors in industrial apphcations, Proc. 1st Italy-Russia Workshop on membrane and membrane processes, Cetraro (I), 51-55. 

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