Published March 2010
| Version v1
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Purification of plutonium obtained during the lean organic treatment steps in CORAL
Creators
- 1. Reprocessing Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (India)
Description
A method is optimized for the purification of impure plutonium oxide obtained during in the spent solvent treatment cycles by ammonium carbonate or hydrazine carbonate. In the present method uranium is removed by washing with 4 N nitric acid and HBDP oxidized products by washing with ammonium hydroxide. The other metallic impurities are removed by total dissolution of plutonium oxide followed by oxalate precipitation and calcination. The plutonium product after the purification was found to meet the specification required for fuel fabrication. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Imprint Place
- Mumbai (India)
- ISBN
- 978-81-8372-055-2
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of DAE-BRNS biennial symposium on emerging trends in separation science and technology
- Imprint Pagination
- 677 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 317-318
Conference
- Title
- 4. DAE-BRNS biennial symposium on emerging trends in separation science and technology
- Acronym
- SESTEC-2010
- Dates
- 1-4 Mar 2010
- Place
- Kalpakkam (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 41127185
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- NITRIC ACID; PLUTONIUM; PUREX PROCESS; PURIFICATION; SPENT FUELS; TBP
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; BUTYL PHOSPHATES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; ESTERS; FUELS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; METALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR FUELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REPROCESSING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 2 refs., 2 tabs.