The Zirflex process was studied extensively at Hanford in the development of technology for the interim reprocessing of power reactor fuels. The process involves the dissolution of Zircaloy in aqueous ammonium fluoride - ammonium nitrate solution. It is of particular interest at Hanford because of the impending fuel recovery from Zircaloy-clad PRTR and NPR elements. The chemical kinetics of the Zirflex reaction were not fuily defined at the end of the original studies. However, a pseudo first order reaction with free'' fluoride (fluoride not complexed with Zr) was deemed to describe the kinetics adequately for engineering calculations. The refined kinetic equation and the analog computer solution on model of the system are discussed. The results of thirty computer simulated dis solutions are also presented, and the data are used to illustrate the effects of the process variables on the Zirflex dissolution time cycle. The data from a selected few of the runs are directly applicable to the reprocessing of PRTR fuel elements in Redox. It was found that the Zirflex reaction kinetics are dependent on free'' fluoride ion to the 2.0l7 power and on H ion to the 0.457 power according to laboratory data secured after completion of the original …

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