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fused salt bath to permit dissolution at a pene-
tration rate of 22 to 35 milshr, passage of the
UF,-F, mixture through a bed of NaF at 650OC to
obtain additional decontamination, and final puri-
fication of the UF, by distillation.
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Recovery of the uranium by fluoride volatilization
will be easy, although methods for obtaining a
decontamination factor of about 10, will have to be
developed in order to allow metallurgical pro-
cessing of the uranium.
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