The Fuel Cycle of the Fission Molybdenum Production

In consideration of economy and safeguard regulations the nuclear fuel has to be recycled. It was therefore nessesary to develop a technological procedure which permits the recovery of uranium from the waste solution arising from fission molybdenum production. The so-called AMOR-facility includes three main parts: 1. The dissolution of an irradiated fuel element of a research reactor, the separation of fission molybdenum and a long-lime storage of this fuel element solution. 2. The recovery of uranium from solution by an extraction-reextraction process with tri-n-butylphosphate. 3. Producing the AI/UO2+x dispersion, and fabrication of the new target elements. The content of nuclear material is regularly being examined by the proliferation agreement.