SHINE and Mini-SHINE Column Designs for Recovery of Mo from 140 g-U/L Uranyl Sulfate

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1330563· OSTI ID:1330563

Stepinski, Dominique C. ^[1]; Vandegrift, George F. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Argonne is assisting SHINE Medical Technologies (SHINE) in their efforts to develop an accelerator-driven process that utilizes a uranyl-sulfate solution for the production of fission Mo-99. In an effort to design a Mo-recovery system for the SHINE project using low-enriched uranium (LEU), we conducted batch, breakthrough, and pulse tests to determine the Mo isotherm, mass-transfer zone (MTZ), and system parameters for a 130 g-U/L uranyl sulfate solution at pH 1 and 80°C, as described previously. The VERSE program was utilized to calculate the MTZ under various loading times and velocities. The results were then used to design Mo separation and recovery columns employing a pure titania sorbent (110-μm particles, S110, and 60 Å pore size). The plant-scale column designs assume Mo will be separated from 271 L of a 141 g-U/L uranyl sulfate solution, pH 1, containing 0.0023 mM Mo. The VERSE-designed recovery systems have been tested and verified in laboratory-scale experiments, and this approach was found to be very successful.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1330563
• Report Number(s): ANL/NE--16/11; 129607
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
DESIGN
EXTRACTION COLUMNS
FISSION
ISOTHERMS
LOADING
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS RECOVERY
MOLYBDENUM 99
Mo-99
PULSES
SHINE
SLIGHTLY ENRICHED URANIUM
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0273-0400 K
TITANIUM OXIDES
URANYL SULFATES
VELOCITY
ZONES