Published 1976
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Recovery of americium-241 from aged plutonium
Description
A process was developed for recovering 241Am from aged plutonium oxide. The oxide is dissolved with nitric acid and fluoride, the fluoride is complexed with aluminum, and plutonium and americium are separated by one cycle of solvent extraction. Americium is concentrated and purified by cation exchange chromatography and precipitated as oxalate. The process was successfully operated in Savannah River Plant facilities to recover approximately 720 g of 241Am from about 60 kg of aged plutonium oxide
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Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- Process involves dissolution, complexation with aluminium, solvent extraction, ion exchange chromatography and precipitation
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 17 p.
- Report number
- DP--1419
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 8297033
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMERICIUM 241; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITRIC ACID; PLUTONIUM OXIDES; PRECIPITATION; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; CHALCOGENIDES; CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Available from NTIS. $3.50.