Nuclear Safety Guide for Handling, Storing, and Recovering Uranium Metal Slugs, Pellets, and High-Density Uranium Compounds: Addendum 1, Nuclearly Safe Handling and Recovery of Uranium Oxide Pellets or Powder, a Detailed Treatment

摘要

A straightforward comprehensive outline of the nuclearly safe methods of handling and recovering uranium oxide pellets or powder of excessive or unknown density appears to be needed at this time. Such an outline or guide has been prepared and is presented. It is assumed that the U-235 assay, grams of uranium, and gram of U per gram are correctly known. The outline follows. The oxide is assumed to be UO sub 2 , and the uranium density of the pellets (and of powder, until correctly determined) is assumed to be 9.61 gms. Ucc. These assumptions will be correct or conservative for all oxide pellets and powder for the operations and calculations described herein.