Published 1985
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The recovery of plutonium by pyroredox processing
- 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Description
A process has been developed to recover the plutonium in impure scrap, less than 95% plutonium, by pyrochemical oxidation and reduction. This plutonium metal was then further purified by pyrochemical electrorefining. In process development, depleted electrorefining anodes were processed and over 80% of the plutonium was recovered in one electrorefining cycle as high purity metal. In process operations, more than 40 kg of plutonium has been recovered from 55 kg of impure anodes
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Electrochemical Society.
- Imprint Place
- Pennington, NJ (USA)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the Fall 1985 meeting of the Electrochemical Society
- Journal Page Range
- p. 745.
Conference
- Title
- 168. meeting of the Electrochemical Society.
- Dates
- 13-18 Oct 1985.
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17052054
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANODES; ELECTROREFINING; OXIDATION; PLUTONIUM; RECYCLING; REDOX PROCESS; REDUCTION; SOLID WASTES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WASTE PROCESSING
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; ELEMENTS; MANAGEMENT; METALS; REFINING; REPROCESSING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES