Separation of transuranium elements from irradiated targets
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN (United States)
Aluminum targets containing curium/americium oxide are irradiated to produce the transcurium actinides einsteinium, fermium, berkelium, and californium. Recovery of recycle curium/americium and the transcurium elements involves several chemical processing steps to selectively recover those elements and remove fission products. Chemical processing steps developed at the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC) include aluminum dejacketing, solvent extraction to remove bulk impurities, solvent extraction to remove plutonium, anion exchange to partition curium and transcurium elements from the rare earths, and a second anion exchange cycle to separate americium/curium from the transcurium elements.
- OSTI ID:
- 141195
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930304--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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