Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology

Densities of molten salt mixtures of eutectic LiCl-KCl with UCl3, CeCl3, or LaCl3 at various concentrations (up to 13 wt%) were measured using a liquid surface displacement probe. Linear relationships between the mixture density and the concentration of the added salt were observed. For LaCl3 and CeCl3, the measured densities were significantly higher than those previously reported from Archimedes’ method. In the case of LiCl-KCl-UCl3, the data fit the ideal mixture density model very well. For the other salts, the measured densities exceeded the ideal model prediction by about 2%.

Keywords

Pyroprocessing,Molten salt,Density,Fuel cycle