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Dry Fluoride Process Status Report

Description: Technical report outlining how uranium hexaflouride was prepared be the direct combination of irradiated uranium metal with elemental fluorine and subsequently decontaminated by adsorption, filtration, and sublimation on a laboratory scale. Report proposes a survey of other methods of preparing UF6 from uranium metal, a study of adsorption techniques for removing plutonium from UF6, and an investigation of fractional distillation for removing the volatile fission product fluorides from UF6. [Fr… more
Date: March 27, 1951
Creator: Leuse, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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