Lithium isotope separation method and lithium isotope separation device
AssigneesKyoto Fusioneering Ltd., Kyoto University
InventorsSatoshi KONISHI, Juro YAGI, Ryo ITO
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Abstract
A lithium isotope separation device includes a mixing container 10 for bringing a medium 1 and a medium 2 into contact with each other to mix them, a mixing means 11 configured to bring the medium 1 and the medium 2 into contact with each other by allowing the medium 1 and the medium 2 to flow in the mixing container 10 to mix them, and extraction means 10a and 10b configured to separate the mixed respective liquid media by utilizing a difference in specific gravity of respective liquid media and extract each of the separated and concentrated lithium isotopes.
Claims8
A lithium isotope separation method, comprising:
- an isotope transfer step of bringing a first liquid medium and a second liquid medium each including a plurality of lithium isotopes into contact with each other to mutually exchange and transfer the lithium isotopes from one liquid medium to another liquid medium according to their mass numbers, wherein
- the first liquid medium is a molten metal containing a molten liquid of an alloy of metallic lithium and a chemically inert metal, and
- the second liquid medium is a molten salt containing lithium and a molten liquid of a salt containing a compound of a halogen element.
A lithium isotope separation device for separating and extracting two or more lithium isotopes using a property that lithium isotopes are mutually exchanged and transferred from one liquid medium to another liquid medium according to their mass numbers by bringing a first liquid medium into contact with a second liquid medium,
- wherein the lithium isotope separation device comprises:
- a mixing container for bringing the first liquid medium and the second liquid medium into contact with each other to mix the first liquid medium and the second liquid medium;
- a mixing means configured to bring the first liquid medium and the second liquid medium into contact with each other by allowing the first liquid medium and the second liquid medium to flow in the mixing container to mix the first liquid medium and the second liquid medium;
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- an extraction means configured to separate the respective liquid media mixed by the mixing means by utilizing a fact that the respective liquid media do not dissolve each other and have a difference in specific gravity, and extract each of the separated and concentrated lithium isotopes through a pair of discharge ports,
- the first liquid medium is a molten metal containing a molten liquid of an alloy of metallic lithium and a chemically inert metal, and
- the second liquid medium is a molten salt containing lithium and a molten liquid of a salt containing a compound of a halogen element.
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