Zinc distillation advantages

Zinc Distillation Process ( 3, 4 ). A zinc distillation process was selected as a reference pyrochemical process that would have a sufficient degree of proliferation resistance that it could be used by nonweapons nations to reprocess spent fuel without significantly increasing their weapons production capability. The process has the inherent proliferation-resistant advantages of being a low decontamination process with limited plutonium enrichment in uranium-plutonium-zinc mixtures. The process chemistry flow sheet for this process is shown in Figure 1. 

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