Noh, Seunghyo; Kang, Joonhee; Kwak, Dohyun; Fischer, Peter - In: Energy 68 (2014) C, pp. 751-755
Using first principles DFT (density functional theory), we have examined the thermochemical mechanism of electrorefining spent uranium (U) from a LiCl–KCl molten salt on a tungsten (W) surface. We calculated 197 different U/W(110) surfaces to identify the most thermodynamically and...