The proof studies of novel aluminum precipitation technique for fission Moly production

The fission of ²³⁵U induced by a thermal neutron is the most prominent method for large-scale production of ⁹⁹Mo. In this present work, we demonstrated the optimized condition and new way of ⁹⁹Mo production using aluminum precipitation technique. Since, if it is possible to precipitate a large amount of aluminum from the dissolved target solution, it can reduce the amount of waste generated during the separation, recovery and simplify the post-treatment process of waste liquid. Thus the new process developed in this present work has excellent advantage on large scale ⁹⁹Mo production. the modified new technique confirmed that it is easy to acquire MoO^2₄ from the fission product in the form of crystalline precipitate. This was obtained by optimizing the process by controlling the pH from 14 to 11 at the vessel temperature 75 .deg. C