Engineering Design of a Mechanical Decladder for Spent Nuclear Rod-Cuts

Table 1

Advantages and disadvantages of different types of decladders.

Content	Type
	Advantage and disadvantage	Vertical	Horizontal	Slant
Design/fabrication	Advantage		Easy rod-cut feeding	Easy to remove fragments after decladding
	Disadvantage	(i) UO2 fragments emitted before decladding; (ii) Difficult rod-cut feeding	Fragments remain in blade after decladding	Difficult rod-cut feeding
Working process	Advantage	(i) Simple; (ii) Low blade wear	(i) Simple; (ii) Low blade wear
	Disadvantage			(i) Complicated; (ii) High blade wear
Efficiency	Advantage		High	High
	Disadvantage	Low