Published February 1986 | Version v1
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Ion exchange technology in spent fuel reprocessing

  • 1. Rockwell International Corp., Golden, CO (USA)

Description

Solvent extraction is the major unit operation employed in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing. The operation yields three streams: fission product waste, uranium product and plutonium product. Ion exchange is primarily used in reprocessing as a tailend method to concentrate and isolate the plutonium product stream. This chapter will describe the details of plutonium recovery and purification by both cation and anion exchange processing. A brief overview of miscellaneous uses of ion exchange employed in reprocessing will also be given. (author)

Part of:
Ion exchange technology in the nuclear fuel cycle

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Imprint Title
Ion exchange technology in the nuclear fuel cycle
Imprint Pagination
245 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 177-196.
Report number
IAEA-TECDOC--365

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Notes
20 refs, 6 figs, 2 tabs.