CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, CHEMICAL DEVELOPMENT SECTION C PROGRESS REPORT FOR APRIL-MAY 1960
Author(s) -
K. B. Brown
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4179323
Subject(s) - purex , chemistry , stripping (fiber) , extraction (chemistry) , countercurrent exchange , aqueous solution , data scrubbing , solvent extraction , ammonium carbonate , plutonium , solvent , ammonium , inorganic chemistry , nuclear chemistry , radiochemistry , chromatography , materials science , waste management , organic chemistry , physics , engineering , composite material , thermodynamics
An economical process was successfully demonstrated in bench-scale continuous equipment for stripping U from amines with ammonium carbonate solution. A continuous countercurrent mixer-settler extraction system was set up for further testing of the process for recovery of Te, Np, and U by tertiary amine extraction from UF/sub 6/ transfer cylinder was solutions. The effect of Purex aqueous feed adjustment procedures on Pu extraction by 1 M di-secbutyl phenylphosphonate (DSBPP) was studied. Work was continued on plutonium(IV) nitrate extraction with TBP and phenylphosphonate esters. The response of Ru/sup 106/ extraction to variations in the treatment of TBP-Amsco 125-82 solvent was tested. Two solvents have shown ability to extract cesium. (For preceding period see CF-80-3-136.) (W.L.H.
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