URANIUM ORE PROCESSING

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DRIVE

PACKING GLAND

DRILLED DISTRIBUTION

PLATE

Fig. 14. This agitated fluid-bed reactor" was designed for hydrofluorination, but

it is suitable in principle for the reduction of higher uranium oxides to UO2.

of evolved vapor within a cold reactor. This is avoidable in the reduc-

tion reactor by drying the feed materials with a countercurrent flow of

air at 395 to 482 C, so as to preheat the charge to the bed temperature

range of 395 to 417C.

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