国立橡树岭实验室的工作人员处理了飞机用实验性反应堆(ARE)的全部装入燃料。用升华法和吸收法使铀与分裂产物分离。熔融盐氟化后,铀以UF_4的状态升华。接着采用NaF的吸收法,以及冷捕集器中的解吸过程,最后通过加热获得纯液体UF_6。 在橡树岭所作的半工厂性试验中曾处理过两份装入反应堆的全部燃料。在处理第二份燃料时, National Oak Ridge Laboratory staff handled all of the aircraft’s experimental reactors (AREs) with fuel. Uranium and split products are separated by sublimation and absorption. After molten salt is fluorinated, uranium sublimates in the state of UF_4. Followed by the NaF absorption method, and the desorption process in the cold trap, and finally the pure liquid UF_6 is obtained by heating. In the semi-industrial tests conducted by Oak Ridge, two fuels were loaded into the reactor. When dealing with the second fuel,