4h35m54s01f Argonne Pyroprocessing - Bruce Hoglund - Is a Molten Salt Process - Recycle - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 15/05/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ The rods generate energy by transforming some of the uranium into different elements. Fission products start to build up. We need chemistry to separate them out. But since the fission products are thoroughly mixed with the uranium- pyroprocessing. A nifty technology invented by Argon scientists.

Thing is, they call it pyroprocessing, but it's a molten salt process. They're dissolving this thing in a molten salt and they're doing electrochemistry on it.

After chopping the fuel rods into small pieces you submerge them in a vat of molten salts. When you run an electric current through the vat, the uranium and transuranics separate out and form crystals on the electrodes.

Bruce Hoglund:
Molten salt can not only be a fuel, it's a way to reprocess or process nuclear fuels, and clean them up for reuse.