Published March 1987 | Version v1
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ORNL review of TRUEX flowsheet proposed for deployment at the Rockwell Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant

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The Transuranium Extraction (TRUEX) process will be installed at the Rockwell Hanford Operations (RHO) Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP). The purposes are to process the PFP waste to recover the plutonium, to isolate the americium, and to have the remaining waste converted to a non-TRU waste. Rockwell requested that ORNL provide an outside review of the process and its implementation. This review addresses the generation of the TRUEX feed, the chemical flowsheet, and the products and raffinates. It suggests that present PFP operations be modified to reduce the amount of transuranium elements that will be in the TRUEX process feed. This review also includes an assessment of the TRUEX solvent extraction flowsheet on the bases of material balance, adequate extraction and stripping stages, and solvent cleanup. The final part of the review includes results of three-party discussions [RHO, ORNL, and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)] of some major issues

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01; 1 as DE87007787.

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21 p.
Report number
ORNL/TM--10334

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18086371
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
Descriptors DEI
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; AMERICIUM; FLOWSHEETS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; SOLVENT EXTRACTION
Descriptors DEC
ACTINIDES; DIAGRAMS; ELEMENTS; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES

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