Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys
Abstract
Niobium is recovered from scrap uranium-niobium alloy by melting the scrap with tin, solidifying the billet thus formed, heating the billet to combine niobium with tin therein, placing the billet in hydrochloric acid to dissolve the uranium and form a precipitate of niobium stannide, then separating the precipitate from the acid.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5840656
- Application Number:
- ON: DE83018047
- Assignee:
- ERA-08-053687; EDB-83-175411
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NIOBIUM; RECOVERY; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; PYROCHEMICAL REPROCESSING; URANIUM BASE ALLOYS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MELTING; SCRAP; TIN; ACTINIDE ALLOYS; ALLOYS; ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; METALS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; REPROCESSING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLID WASTES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; URANIUM ALLOYS; WASTES; 052001* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Processing
Citation Formats
Wallace, S A, Creech, E T, and Northcutt, W G. Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys. United States: N. p., 1982.
Web.
Wallace, S A, Creech, E T, & Northcutt, W G. Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys. United States.
Wallace, S A, Creech, E T, and Northcutt, W G. Mon .
"Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys". United States.
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title = {Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys},
author = {Wallace, S A and Creech, E T and Northcutt, W G},
abstractNote = {Niobium is recovered from scrap uranium-niobium alloy by melting the scrap with tin, solidifying the billet thus formed, heating the billet to combine niobium with tin therein, placing the billet in hydrochloric acid to dissolve the uranium and form a precipitate of niobium stannide, then separating the precipitate from the acid.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
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