Antonelli, Terry & Wands
Process for treating waste gas in reprocessing of used nuclear fuel
 A waste gas generated in the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel is at first subjected to removal of explosive, gaseous substances such as hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, and materials capable of forming the explosive gaseous substances, such as oxygen, and condensible substances such as carbon dioxide, water and ammonia from the waste gas, and then to cryogenic distillation, thereby separating and recovering Kr-85 from the waste gas. As the separation and recovery of Kr-85 is carried out by cryogenic separation after the removal of the substances having a possibility to explode in a cryogenic distillation apparatus and also the removal of condensible substances having a possibility to clog a piping system of the apparatus, the operation of the apparatus is ensured. It is also disclosed that the oxygen and nitrogen oxides can be completely removed by catalytic hydrogen reduction. 
Hitachi, Ltd.
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G21F
inventional
Masato Kunio Fumito Hideo
Takeuchi Kamiya Nakajima Yusa