US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Aug. 12 for "Method and facility for converting uranium hexafluoride into uranium dioxide" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,694, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Method and facility for converting uranium hexafluoride into uranium dioxide" was invented by Bruno Mesona (Saint Marcel les Valence, France), Andre Feugier (Chatuzange le Goubet, France) and Alain Yakoubi (Parnans, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion process for converting uranium hexafluoride into uranium dioxide includes the steps of hydrolysis of UF6 to uranium oxyfluoride (UO2F2) in a hydrolysis reactor (4) by reaction between gaseous UF6 and dry water vapour injected into the reactor (4), pyrohydrolysis of UO2F2 to UO2 in a pyrohydrolysis fu...