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NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 47, Issue 1, 010301(2024)

Study on the condensation behavior of the key metal fluorides in molten salts during low-pressure distillation

Yuting HUO2... Yan LUO1,3, Haifei XIANG4, Qiang DOU1,3, Jie MA2, Hongmeng WENG5,*, and Qingnuan LI13 |Show fewer author(s)

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¹Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

⁴East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330006, China

⁵Xinjiang Nonferrous Metal Research Institute, Urumqi 830000, China

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Yuting HUO, Yan LUO, Haifei XIANG, Qiang DOU, Jie MA, Hongmeng WENG, Qingnuan LI. Study on the condensation behavior of the key metal fluorides in molten salts during low-pressure distillation[J]. NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, 2024, 47(1): 010301

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Jan. 23, 2023

Accepted: --

Published Online: Mar. 7, 2024

The Author Email: WENG Hongmeng (翁鸿蒙)

DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2024.hjs.47.010301

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